Oshara: Insightful Conversations with Krishna Radha

Osho’s oral history continues with a new video channel out of California, with two interviews a month

Oral history recorded while memory is still alive

“Oral history is a method of collecting and preserving personal memories and experiences about past events through recorded interviews, creating primary source material – audio, video, or transcripts – that offers unique perspectives, especially from marginalised groups, to supplement traditional written records. It is both the process of interviewing and the resulting historical account, aiming to capture individuals’ subjective understandings of history in their own words.” A description that could serve as Oshara’s manifesto.

Many of the sannyasins who experienced Osho directly are now well into their seventies and beyond. The window for first-hand testimony is narrowing. Capturing those lived experiences – the contradictions, revelations, wounds, laughter, and transformations – patiently and respectfully, is precisely the work of oral history – and Oshara is stepping into that space.

From Shoah to O-Shoah to Oshara

The name Oshara evokes earlier attempts to preserve living memory. In the late 1990s, inspired by Shoah, created by Steven Spielberg, Manik Reuter launched an ambitious project he called O-Shoah. His idea was both simple and vast: to travel the world and record one-to-one video interviews with sannyasins while they were still alive. The project never found the funding it required and was eventually abandoned, but its impulse was prescient.

Since then, many efforts have contributed to a collective archive. Bhagawati’s Past the Point of No Return gathered 45 life stories into a now out-of-print volume that remains available online. Savita’s Dinner with Osho and Encounters with an Inexplicable Man preserved intimate conversations. Memoirs continue to appear worldwide, long after Osho’s death in 1990. Platforms such as Osho News and sannyas.wiki have made interviews and personal profiles widely accessible.

A major contribution came in the form of 150 podcasts recorded from 2018 onwards and produced at remarkable speed – one per week – by Love Osho. These conversations were later taken down from streaming platforms before being carefully re-uploaded by sannyas.wiki in 2023. Last year, a selection of interviews was transcribed and published in the book Osho Oral History, by Vikrant Sentis and Francesco Gatti.

During the pandemic, when life moved onto Zoom, new formats emerged again. In Brazil, Abheeru Sufi and Divya Aminah began meeting friends online to meditate and share. These gatherings evolved into interviews and became the YouTube channel Histórias com Osho, with an English-language playlist added as the project expanded beyond national borders.

What makes Oshara different

Oshara is run by Krishna Radha, a young Indian woman living in California. At first glance, the channel looks deceptively simple: long-form Zoom interviews with sannyasins who experienced Osho live. No flashy editing. No background music. No urgency to “get through” a list of questions.

And that is precisely the point.

What distinguishes these conversations is their pace. Questions are not fired. Silence is allowed. Answers unfold slowly – sometimes tentatively, sometimes circling back on themselves. Watching requires a small adjustment: letting go of the expectation of stimulation and settling instead into listening.

Nidhi, one of the recent interviewees, described the experience afterwards: “I really enjoy the relaxed speed – the spaciousness and the depth this allows for. Sometimes I take a break in the middle of watching a video and then look forward to coming back for more.”

She also commented on Krishna Radha herself: “I love what Radha is doing – sharing these deep communications centred around Osho’s work. There is a sincerity in her inquiry, and a tangible, alive devotion to Osho. It feels important that younger people understand what he is offering us.”

What emerges in these interviews is not performance but presence. Krishna Radha does not steer the conversation toward conclusions. She listens, and allows the interviewee to find their own rhythm. In an age of clipped content and accelerated attention, this slowness feels almost radical.

Krishna Radha in her own words

“The flavour of a spiritual master is not only in his books,” Krishna Radha reflects. “It is visible in the psychological landscape of the people who lived with him, loved him, struggled with him.”
For her, the value lies in allowing pain and grace to coexist in the telling.

“When people share their journey honestly, without polishing it, it becomes a contribution to collective wisdom. Growth is not linear. Accepting that you are still a work in progress is part of the truth.”

Her entry into interviewing was unplanned.

“I was a shy child, very private. I didn’t imagine myself speaking publicly.” The project emerged quietly, almost accidentally. “We are taught to hustle, to force things into being. But there is another way – receptivity. When I stopped trying to shape an outcome, this work appeared.”

Her lack of formal media training became an unexpected strength.

“I am not performing an interview. I am present in a human encounter. There is no ambition attached – only listening. At the same time, my professional training and discipline have taught me that preparation is crucial. Before an interview I spend a lot of time reading the books, articles, and Facebook posts written by the interviewees.”

Krishna Radha was born in Pune and moved to the United States at 23 to study. She followed what she describes as the prescribed path: prestigious degrees, a career in technology at companies such as Google and Yahoo, and a stable family life.

“And then there was the moment when I realised I had everything I thought I wanted – and something essential was missing. That question, ‘Is this it?’ was the beginning.”

Although she had been physically close to Osho as a child in Pune, the encounter came much later, in California. Her search led her to the Osho Nirvana Centre in San Diego, where regular practice of Osho’s meditations – Dynamic, Kundalini, Nadabrahma, No-Mind – within a supportive community became formative.

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