First of all, Osho’s family, who lived in the Commune, hadn’t met him in a long time. They questioned why the thousands of followers across the world didn’t merit a proper darshan of their guru.Īfter that the Commune had a big press conference and in the very first week, I reported that something was amiss. Osho’s quick cremation didn’t go down well with his followers. Laxmi couldn’t make it for the cremation as she lived in Bombay. Osho’s first secretary, Ma Yoga Laxmi, who had fallen out with the Inner Circle, openly alleged murder. His body was brought and kept for darshan for just 10-15 minutes and hurriedly cremated. At 7 pm, at the evening meditation held in the Commune, called the White Robe Brotherhood, the news of his death was broken by Swami Prem Amrito (part of Osho’s Inner Circle, a doctor by profession and Osho’s personal physician) to the disciples gathered. On January 19, 1990, the big event happened - Osho died.
My reportage was restricted to current events, profiles of visitors, events such as Osho’s birthday (December 11) and day of enlightenment (March 21) etc. I was reporting on the Osho Commune since 1987, when I joined the Times of India in Pune. What made you suspect that there was foul play in Osho’s death, which is the premise of this book? The research for the book has been in-depth and the book has been put through a journalist’s rigour no hearsay, all recorded statements and facts only. So far there is no journalistic account of his life most of the books have been written by his disciples.
Who Killed Osho? is a definitive account of Osho and his life and covers the entire fifty-year movement. How is this book different from other accounts or books on Osho’s life?
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But articles have a short shelf life and don’t always tell the full story. through articles through the ‘80s and ‘90s. I had been covering Osho and his death etc. Finally I decided that if I were to write the book I would have to stop freelancing, as it was too distracting. Even then the book had no momentum because I was busy doing other things freelancing for a number of portals and magazines. Post 2012 I got serious about the book and it took a year to formulate the ‘What’ of the book.
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