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This page will eventually show examples of all letterheads known to have been used by Osho. Some were official, some makeshift, all have a story or two. Included in this page are also the papers Osho used for name-papers. Some of these were also used for letters, so there is a decent cross-over, with no compelling need to separate the two.

Some notes follow the gallery below.

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ProfSaxena-1, 1957

ProfSaxena-1, 1957
Mahakoshal-1, 1960-61
Mahakoshal-2, 1961-?
Mahakoshal-3,
TaaranTaran-1, 1960
TaaranTaran-2, 1961
TaaranTaran-3, 1961
NapierTown-1, 1961
NapierTown-2,
NapierTown-3,
Satsang-1, 1965
NapierTown-4,
NapierTown-5,
Rorschach-1, 1962-8
KamalaNehru-1, 1968-70
Novelty-1, 1969
Novelty-2, 1969
Novelty-3, 1969
Churchgate-1, 1970
Churchgate-DN-1, 1970
Churchgate-2, 1970
Woodland-1, 1970-1
Woodland-DN-1, 1970-1
Woodland-2, 1971-4
Woodland-3, 1971-4
BSRPuneOne-1, 1974-81
RFPuneOne-1, 1974-81
PuneTwo-1, ever used?
PuneThree-1, 1990-2000?

Notes

Osho's homes

Source for info on Osho's homes in Jabalpur is mainly Neeten's Osho Source Book, which in turn cites mainly Gyan Bhed ...
Osho stayed in many places in Jabalpur. No letters are known from the period before he went to Sagar to get his MA. In Sagar he stayed with two of his professors, Dr. S.S. Roy and Dr. S.K. Saxena, and also at times in the students’ hostel. After getting his position in 1958 as a lecturer at Jabalpur University, he stayed in Bhaldarpura, from 1959 to 1960, then for some months in the house of Gupteshwar (unknown) on Devtaal Rd in the Garha area.

From late 1960** to 1968 he lived in Napier Town in the house of Shree Devoki Nandan, who provided enough space for Osho to keep his growing library, give talks and introduce his listeners to meditation. Then he shifted to a house in Kamla Nehru Nagar on Garha Road.

At the end of June 1970, he made his big move to Mumbai, landing first in an apartment in CCI Chambers in the Churchgate area arranged by a close supporter, Himmat Bhai. This could not last long however, since other residents could not tolerate the crowds that were soon coming, so a large ground-level flat was found in Woodland, on Peddar Rd. It too was soon too small but manageable until the move to Pune came in March 1974. Then of course, Pune One, the Ranch and the rest, as they say, is history.

Mahakoshal

In the late 50s and early 60s, Osho held forth in the Philosophy department at Mahakoshal Arts University. Our earliest Mahakoshal letterhead, used in a letter in Oct 1960, also gives his home address as Yogesh Bhavan, Napier Town. He inserts by hand a "115" before the "Yogesh Bhavan"; more correctly it should go before "Napier Town", but there is no space there. In fact, this letterhead doesn't work and, after some attempts at inserting 115 in subsequent letters, he gives up and eventually gets new letterhead. This is just the beginning.

The Mahakoshal letterheads in one way can be considered a subset of the Napier Town letterheads, in the sense that he was living in Yogesh Bhavan, 115 Napier Town the whole time he taught at Mahakoshal, except for his earliest days in that position. The Mahakoshal letterheads all include his home address in Napier Town, while the Napier Town letterheads do not mention Mahakoshal.

The wiki doesn't have any letters from the period prior to the first Mahakoshal letterheads, except for postcards and inland letter form letters written to Deriya Ji in earlier 1960, so are likely his earliest personal letterheads.

They come in three forms, in a rough progression used in letters from late 1960 to 1962. After that, he featured only his personal address in letterheads. They are Mahakoshal-1, Mahakoshal-2 and Mahakoshal-3. Pages for each of these will feature full descriptions and links to all the letters that use them.

Taaran Taran

(Sant) Taaran Taran was a 15th-16th c Jain mystic whose influence was profound in the part of India Osho grew up in. In fact, his parents were members of the sect which arose from Taaran Taran's teachings. Osho has spoken on him in a number of talks among his published works and probably a fair bit more is lost to posterity. More about him here.

Osho was both a speaker at and organizer of Taaran Taran's birthday celebrations. Thus his name appears on these Taaran Taran organizing committee letterheads, though he used them only rarely for letters, since they were not his personal letterheads. The last one even gives the organizing committee's office address as 115, Napier Town, his personal address. Still, they seem to have been used mainly out of need in the moment, the last known use in 1961.‎

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 From late 1960[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|**]] to 1968 he lived in Napier Town in the house of Shree Devoki Nandan, who provided enough space for Osho to keep his growing library, give talks and introduce his listeners to meditation. Then he shifted to a house in Kamla Nehru Nagar on Garha Road.
-At the end of June 1970, he made his big move to Mumbai, landing first in an apartment in CCI Chambers in the Churchgate area arranged by a close supporter, [[Himmat Bhai]]. This could not last long however, since other residents could not tolerate the crowds that were soon coming, so a large ground-level flat was found in Woodland, on Peddar Rd. It too was soon too small but manageable until the move to Pune came in March 1974. Then of course, Pune One, the Ranch and so on.
+At the end of June 1970, he made his big move to Mumbai, landing first in an apartment in CCI Chambers in the Churchgate area arranged by a close supporter, [[Himmat Bhai]]. This could not last long however, since other residents could not tolerate the crowds that were soon coming, so a large ground-level flat was found in Woodland, on Peddar Rd. It too was soon too small but manageable until the move to Pune came in March 1974. Then of course, Pune One, the Ranch and the rest, as they say, is history.
 ===Mahakoshal===
 In the late 50s and early 60s, Osho held forth in the Philosophy department at Mahakoshal Arts University. Our earliest Mahakoshal letterhead, used in [[Letter written on 5 Oct 1960|a letter in Oct 1960]], also gives his home address as Yogesh Bhavan, Napier Town. He inserts by hand a "115" before the "Yogesh Bhavan"; more correctly it should go before "Napier Town", but there is no space there. In fact, this letterhead doesn't work and, after some attempts at inserting 115 in subsequent letters, he gives up and eventually gets new letterhead. This is just the beginning.
+The Mahakoshal letterheads in one way can be considered a subset of the Napier Town letterheads, in the sense that he was living in Yogesh Bhavan, 115 Napier Town the whole time he taught at Mahakoshal, except for his earliest days in that position. The Mahakoshal letterheads all include his home address in Napier Town, while the Napier Town letterheads do not mention Mahakoshal.
+The wiki doesn't have any letters from the period prior to the first Mahakoshal letterheads, except for postcards and inland letter form letters written to [[Sw Swarajyanand Samarth|Deriya Ji]] in earlier 1960, so are likely his earliest personal letterheads.
+They come in three forms, in a rough progression used in letters from late 1960 to 1962. After that, he featured only his personal address in letterheads. They are [[Mahakoshal-1 Letterhead|Mahakoshal-1]], [[Mahakoshal-2 Letterhead|Mahakoshal-2]]  and [[Mahakoshal-3 Letterhead|Mahakoshal-3]]. Pages for each of these will feature full descriptions and links to all the letters that use them.
 ===Taaran Taran===