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”Dancing Buddhas Books is a creative venture based in Pune, India, that publishes items relating to Osho, meditation, creativity, and the wellbeing of the environment – projects that are selected at the discretion of the organization and its investors.
The Dancing Buddhas
I’ve done a lot of things but never made much money out of any of it. I was a horse rancher, a graphic designer, a chicken farmer, a magazine columnist, a house cleaner, a paralegal, a publisher’s production editor, a Sufi song-and-dance teacher, an actor-writer-director for the theatre… It’s been a long life and it’s a long list – and that’s just a bit of it.
In terms of accreditation, however, I was trained in both graphic design and existential psychotherapy, and was for years a practising psychotherapist in London, which is where I was born.
Ever since I embarked on the intoxicating “life of total ruin” with the mystic Osho, nothing’s been ordinary. I have lived in the UK, France, Italy and the US, mostly in his community of celebrating misfits, and now spend large chunks of my time in India.
I love theatre, poetry, good food, searching but playful conversation, and the ‘naked’ witnessing life.
My two books are: Encounters with an Inexplicable Man: Stories of Osho as Told by his People (published in Hindi under the title Ek Avyakhya Purush Ke Saath: Osho Ki Kahaniyan Unke Logon Ki Zubaani and recently published in Tamil) and Dinner with Osho: Intimate Tales of Two Women on the Path of Meditation. I am currently working on a third, a diary written under Osho’s direction when I was one of his personal energy mediums.
I arrived in Pune in 1999 not knowing who Osho was – and have never left. I was a journalist, and for some years divided my time between freelance sub-editing in the UK and whirling, painting mandalas and meditating in Pune. These days, I work remotely for a small independent UK publisher as managing editor, editor and typesetter, while still painting the odd mandala or creating visionary digital images based on my travel photography. I also edit Savita's series of Osho-related memoirs and other materials for Dancing Buddhas.
I was born in Pune in 1989 and spent some years working for different companies in the city. But the biggest impact on my life has come from the two great spiritual masters of the 20th century, Osho and Ramana Maharshi.
For the last ten years, I have been living and working in the light of Osho, mainly through my work as an assistant in a local Osho bookshop. I learned many things there and came across people from several different countries. Having the chance to talk with them helped me get a good experience of human nature.
Now I am working with Dancing Buddhas, it is a great privilege for me to be able to continue to stay connected to Osho in my work. I consider it my sadhana – my spiritual practice.
