Talk:Who Is Progressive?

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Neeten's Osho Source Book is the source of the current info on Pragatisheel Kaun? (प्रगतिशील कौन?), the source book from which Who Is Progressive? is translated. He asserts that Progressive is not to be found in the Indian National Library (NL) nor in the Indian National Bibliography (INB), the two most authoritative sources of what has been published in India since 1950.

Nothing is infallible but this also has to be taken with info from the "CD-ROM," aka "Silver Platter" or "Osho Books Database," the excellent searchable 100 MB database of all of Osho's books available in 1992 or so in English, including some thirty or so translations from Hindi. Who Is Progressive? is listed there in one of the appendices, as a known Hindi translation, but its text is specifically not included. OTOH, it also says that many early book(let)s not included directly (as themselves) MAY be included via inclusion in a different book, eg they may have started life as a pamphlet, then got compiled into something else which got translated and put into the CD-ROM.

So whatever. It looks reasonably likely that this translation never got published as such, especially not as late as the time of Rajneesh Foundation. Maybe someday an earlier published translation will surface, but until SOMETHING more definite does, it might be better to think of Progessive as unpublished. Perhaps it can go into both "Unpublished" and "Translated First Editions" categories. And perhaps such considerations are why the page has languished in its old form, an orphan page neither categorized nor linked to until now. -- Sarlo (talk) 22:03, 31 August 2014 (PDT)


This title is not mentioned in the Lao Tzu Library Book List, giving further evidence that it was not in fact published.

It is mentioned on the List of Early Books, which gives as information: "Hindi, Unpublished, only one discourse (in Bombay)". --Sugit (talk) 14:27, 2 June 2016 (UTC)


Regarding date see Talk:Pragatisheel Kaun? (प्रगतिशील कौन?)--DhyanAntar 08:18, 3 June 2020 (UTC)