The application has also mentioned that it had received three bids for the sale - from Atul Ishwardas Chordia, chairman of the city-based Panchshil Realty, for Rs 90 crore from A2Z Online Services Pvt Ltd for Rs 85.5 crore and from Rajiv Bajaj’s family for Rs 107 crore. “The cash flow situation caused on account of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a situation whereby the trust will not have any income for a long period of time but there will be fixed costs for maintaining the premises and properties of the trust,” it added. This has severely affected the cash flow of the trust leading to dire need of fund to meet its financial obligations,” it said. “Looking at the present situation in India and around the world, and uncertainty about continuation of Covid-19 effect, it would not be possible to restart the meditation activities in the near future. The OIF, in its application seeking permission for the sale, has said that it was in financial distress. “The Charity Commissioner’s office has agreed to hear us on March 15,” he added. The site has more than 7 Millions visitors per year.An earnest money of Rs 50 crore has already been paid to the commune,” said Yogesh Thakkar of the Osho Friends’ Foundation (OFF).
The foundation makes Osho’s work also available through this OSHO website ( in 13 languages with the Osho Archive available in digital format. All of these publishers carry Osho books in publishing programs – many of them with 15-30 titles in one program. Martin’s Press, Barnes & Noble Publishers New York, Mondadori and Bompiani in Italy, Random House-Mondadori, Grupo Planeta and Editorial Norma in Spain and South America, Random House in Germany, AST–Premiere in Russia, SONY-Music, TIMES OF India (music division), BMG and Penguin Publishing in India. The list of international publishers include the world’s largest and most influential publishing houses, such as Random House, New York, St. In 2004 alone Osho International signed 395 publishing agreements for Osho titles worldwide - the equivalent of more than one new Osho title or reprint per day.
Total annual sales are now close to 3 million copies – 10 to 15 times the volume of sales during Osho’s lifetime.
Each contract represents one Osho book reaching thousand of readers. Currently we have 2,537 active publishing contracts in a total of 54 languages around the world. More than 220 publishing houses in more than 80 countries around the world have publishing licenses signed with the foundation. Osho International Foundation also maintains the original Osho Archive of 6,500 audio discourse recordings, 1,870 video recordings and approximately 600 original book publications of Osho’s daily talks, as well as the large art and music archive. Osho International Foundation is represented to the international publishing world through ‘OSHO International,’ a licensing office in New York. Since 1985 Osho International Foundation has been responsible for licensing and sublicensing publication rights to the works in all media formats to related foundations, to publishing houses, Television stations, magazines, newspapers and web pages around the World. Osho International Foundation in Switzerland a non profit foundation is the registered copyright owner of all the published and unpublished Works by Osho and the owner of other intellectual property including the trademark OSHO and ancillary rights, music, photos, art, images related to Osho and/or Osho International Foundation.