It is certainly not just my view that there was a blacklisting of the books between 86 and 94. In the general consciousness of the intelligentsia in Europe and America Osho’s name was, sorry to be blunt, mud, due to the Ranch denouement. Are you sure you yourself were fully aware of this?

I am certainly willing to listen if you say that maybe in India this was not the case. The view from OIF was also the same re this period, and despite all, they were still the main purveyors of Osho books.

Legend,
I think if you are happy and proud to share your thoughts and they are not illegal, criminal and paedophilic by nature, real name gives substance to the being.

A man who was in distribution of Osho books feels shy to reveal his identity, it means books are hot air. After all, Osho books are not some kind of Jihadist literature. Still, it is your choice.

Two things you can tell anyway:
Why you dropped your missionary work of Osho books distribution?
And what you see nowadays at airport bookstores? Airport darshan of some living Indian guru?

Just to let you know, I have been very curious since a long time now. Praying you do consider my request.

Parmartha,
I am simply sharing that this was not my experience. I published Osho during that period. I distributed Osho compilations on human rights, women’s liberation, etc. in the late 80′s (88-90) in a city of 2 million people.

There was no problem at all getting Osho’s books into all the bookstores, except for bookstores dedicated to a specific religion, like the Catholic bookstores. The Catholic bookstores refused to accept the book, ‘Priests and Politicians: The Mafia of the Soul’.

But everywhere I went, people of different religions were receptive to Osho. There was a hunger for his message in the late 1980s (post-Ranch). There was no “blacklisting” of Osho in those three years when I was in the book business: from 1988 to 1990.

Perhaps, Parmartha, you are generalising from your anecdotal experience in the UK. That is why you think 1986-1993 was a period of Osho blacklisting? That was not my experience from 1988-1990.

Is it really necessary that I use my real name to post here? I prefer to avoid ad hominem and want to respond to the substance of your post: your claim of post-Ranch “blacklisting.” I am suggesting perhaps your perspective is a bit Eurocentric. That is why I listed a few of the dozens of independent presses in countries around the world who were publishing Osho 1986-1993, mostly outside the OIF orbit.

Perhaps the small and independent press runs were of only a few thousand for each title, but those got into bookstores around the world during the time you say Osho was blacklisted.

I travelled a lot during 1986-1993. I remember seeing Osho titles in airport bookstores. So, in addition to my own experience with publishing and distribution of Osho books to bookstores, I am pretty sure there was no blacklisting going on 1986-1993, because I would see Osho’s face smiling at me in airport bookstores. It was my form of blissful ‘airport darshan’.

Their silence on the matter speaks volumes….

And now, books may be everywhere and look at the thin crowd in Pune. Osho Resort’s facebook page is evidence. A village pub in UK has more lively energy than there.

By the way, even when Osho was alive there were ‘editors’ of his books. Satyadeva, who makes comments here, was the first editor of ‘The Mustard Seed’, in 1974/5.