Sw Anand Yatri

(Malcolm Godwin, Malcolm Carder)

Yatri, born in the UK in 1936, trained as an architect and painter and taught in both fields. He was also a fellow in Visual Communications at the Portsmouth School of Architecture and lectured at various architectural schools in London.

He was commissioned to create a kinetic work at the British Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal.

His artworks appeared in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, the Tate Gallery, London, the Glasgow Art Gallery, Scotland, the Foundation Maeght, France and the Kunsthalle, Cologne.

In 1974 he went to the ashram in Poona and became a Sannyasin.

In 1975 Osho put him in charge of the design department, publishing Osho’s books until late 1979.

During that time he created, under Osho’s direction, The Sound of Running Water.

In the Rajneesh Foundation Newsletter his cartoons of the relationship between Master and Disciple regularly appeared. (see link below)

In 1981/2 he joined the commune in Oregon and worked on the sequel to The Sound of Running Water, This Very Place the Lotus Paradise.

Later on he joined the pipe crew, and helped restore the damaged waterways of the Ranch.

Contact Details

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see also

Yatri's cartoons

Ma Sat Navyo