Talk:Yukrand (युक्रांद)

The Name of the Magazine

There is considerable unclarity regarding the name of this magazine. Is it Yukrant or Yukrand? Up to April 2016, the wiki has relied mostly on "preponderance" to settle the question, "Yukrant" having been cited quite a bit more frequently than "Yukrand". Why has this changed? Read on:

When the name was taken to be Yukrant, it was written:

Most of the information for this page comes from Neeten. His Osho Source Book has a whole lot more scattered about in many of his pages (search for Yukran, since it is often rendered as Yukrand) but a good deal can be found in more concentrated form in the Periodicals subsections of his Jabalpur and Bombay sections, respectively 2.10 and 3.9. Neeten in turn got much of his material from Sw Gyan Bhed and Sw Ageh Bharti.

Yukrant gets its name from a contraction of Yuvak Kranti, or Youth Revolution. Frequently it appears as Yukrand, which may arise from two tendencies: an alt-transliteration all by itself might not be so likely, as Kranti by itself would never be written as Krandi, but possibly it was influenced by a conflation with Osho's Youth Revolution Group, Yuvak Kranti Dal.

I am looking at Ageh's book Blessed Days With Osho. One of its anecdotes ("Osho's Care", p 42) talks about Yukrand and specifically its name in a way which leaves little doubt that this is a deep on-the-scene consideration and reporting, not the haphazard transliteration that so often characterizes reporting of Indian matters. And he knows whereof he speaks, having contributed much to the magazine, even editorials, as well as distributing it at camps and other places on his frequent travels. He writes:

Osho's "Yukrand" meant Yuvak Kranti Dal, connoting Youth's Revolution Group, but out of fear, [the publisher] Prof. Arvind Kumar used to incorporate a footnote on the jacket mentioning Yug Kranti Darshan meaning the Philosophy of revolution for the age.

-- doofus-9 17:15, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Of course a look at an actual copy of this magazine might help, and lo, a year later, a couple have showed up, as scans shared by Shailendra, and the Devanagari does make it clear that there is indeed a D character at the end, so that settles that. युक्रांद!

But wait! There are a couple of flies in this ointment. One is the absence of a "virama" diacritic on the D. This mark is put on consonants to cancel their "inherent vowel", otherwise this case "should" be pronounced Yukranda. The wiki has had such a mark since a year ago, as in युक्रांद्. OTOH, this may not be a big deal, since a) the pronunciation (or not) of terminal "a"s is governed by complex rules independent of virama, and b) "Yukrand" is not strictly a word anyway, it is an acronym, and as such can be pronounced and spelled however its creators would like.

The other oddball is independent of yr fallible wiki editors, and that is some funny business with the "n", an internal inconsistency in the magazine's own self-presentation. In three of the four images which display the stylized Yukrand logo, the "n" is presented as a consonant joined to the following "D", ie युक्रान्द rather than as a nasalizing diacritic ("anusvara"), as it is in Kranti. In the fourth image, the cover of the Oct 1974 issue, "Yukrand" goes with an admittedly very stylized nasalizing diacritic.

Why the two representations should be different is a bit of a puzzle we'll leave for now but it may have to do with the alteration done by Prof Arvind on the concept of Yukrand cited by Ageh above, ie changing from Yuvak Kranti Dal to Yug Kranti Darshan. And yes, that very self-descriptive concept is right there on the cover of this issue, just above "Yukrand".

So the wiki has got rid of its virama but will keep its anusvara. -- doofus-9 07:37, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Other Matters

Yukrand was published from Jabalpur for six years. There are inconsistent reports about the exact start and end dates but they are all 1969 to 1975. Its predecessor by three years, Jyoti Shikha, was published only quarterly, and its very success showed a need for a more frequent publication, so it became supplemented by Yukrand.

Bibliographic details from Neeten: First issue was Mar or Jun 1969. First editor: Ajeet Kumar (Sw Prem Akshat), assisted by Arvind Kumar Jain and Ma Yoga Kranti (both Osho's cousins) and Shree Abdul Radeem. The June date was the 15th, it was 20 pages and sold for 60 paisa. Publisher: Yukrand Prakashan. Printer: Swadesh Printing Press, Naudra Bridge, Jabalpur. Photo of Acharya Rajneesh on front cover. Last issue: Vol.6, issue no.57. April/May 1975. Issue 10/11, year 6. Editor: Arvind Kumar, assisted by Ma Anand Urmila and Alok Pandey. Publisher: Arvind Kumar. Monthly. Several issues were published more frequently. As with the case of Jyoti Shikha, it came to an end because Osho's move to Pune consolidated operations there.

Letters

(Below info is from partial observation, i.e. full analysis of the magazine was not done yet.)

• issue 1-24 (16 June 1970) has letter on its cover. The letter dated 16.05.1970 and seems not published.