20 for 2020 - Halatu Honnu

Some people like to read stories while the others may wanna read the documentaries. Here is a list of twenty books which is a mixture of different kinds you can choose to read in the calendar year - 2020! Whichever book you choose to read, make sure to purchase it (hard or soft copy) and then read. This list is NOT sorted in any order. We have added links to different online shopping sites below every book to make it easy for your purchase.

 ☆ Inner Engineering - A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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You can check out more about Inner Engineering here. Sadhguru offers Inner Engineering online programs through Isha Foundation. Check out the available slots in your area.
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 ☆ A Taste Of Well-Being

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You are what you eat! Instead of searching for medicines to fix health issues, it's always a good idea to maintain health in a good state. This book has many tasty and healthy food recipes. Try them for a better health.
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 ☆ Aavarana (Kannada) - The Veil (English Version)

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Avarana (The Veil) book raises questions and uncovers truths about religion and history. Goes deep into history to reveal the extent of tyranny by foreign invaders in Bharat. Was a bestseller in Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil and other vernacular languages. The Kannada version was sold out even before its release in February 2007. It went into 10 reprints within 5 months of its release!
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 ☆ Breaking India - Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines

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Anything prevalent to the current day, is sure to have its root cause dated long back in time. Sometimes, an insight into ‘why’ something is happening the way it is, leads to a greater understanding.

Know about the interventions of the West on the Eastern traditions: ‘Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines’ is a book that puts light on how the various western bodies like the Church, Researchers and thinkers, Western government groups and organizations brought about a crisp distinction between the blurred identity of the Dravidians and the Dalit communities and also the other parts of Bharat.

Half a decade of research and information gathering from multiple reliable sources has finally led to the compilation of ‘Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines’. The researchers followed the trail left behind by the business groups, which are deceiving in nature and faulty in their sole claim of ‘good work’. The book gives a clear perspective of the state of affairs in the varied organizations.
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 ☆ Decolonizing The Hindu Mind

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The ideological dimension of the Hindu revivalism has been mostly misrepresented or rather neglected in the ongoing debates on the subject. Thoroughly analysing the ideological statements of it's advocates and their critiques of the existing secular order Dr.Koenraad Elst provides an overview of the ideas animating the movement.
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 ☆ Being Different

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"Rajiv Malhotra's insistence on preserving difference with mutual respect - not with mere 'tolerance' - is even more pertinent today because the notion of a single universalism is being propounded. There can be no single universalism, even if it assimilates or, in the author's words, 'digests', elements from other civilizations" - Kapila Vatsyayan In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism.
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 ☆ Academic Hinduphobia

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This compilation opens with an interview of Shri. Rajiv Malhotra conducted by another independent scholar who resides in the United States and who has followed the works of these biased academics for over two decades.
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 ☆ History of India as it Happened not as it has been written

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Bharatian History has to be rewritten according to the latest linguistic and archaeological discoveries, if Bharatian children are to understand who they are and where they come from. We know now that not only the history of Bharat's beginnings were written by European colonizers, with an intention to downsize, downgrade and postdate Bharatian civilization.

Unfortunately, generation after generation of Bharatian historians, for their own selfish purpose, endorsed and perpetuated these wrong theories, such as the Aryan invasion, which divided Bharat like nothing else, pitting South against North, Aryan against Dravidian and Untouchables against Brahmins. This book will lay the foundations for the next generation of Bharatian historians.
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 ☆ Abachoorina Post Office

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This is a Kannada novel which later became the story for a movie with same title.
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 ☆ Daatu (Kannada) - Crossing Over (English Version)

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"There are very few books that call you back to them, that don't let you put them down. And this is one such book. The Book analyses the complex caste system that is deep rooted into our society through different characters. In the end one realizes that 'equality' is something that can only be imagined and described but practically never be achieved.

That is the nature of the Nature - everything is not meant to be equal. What is ruling today will be ruled by something else tomorrow. As Satya understands this truth with her repeated discussions with Mohanadasa, those are suppressed today will suppress someone else tomorrow." - Review by Dhananjay Hegde
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 ☆ Indra's Net

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It is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked any semblance of unity before the British period, and that the contours of contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters.

Such arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor who shattered many deeply rooted prejudices against Bharatian civilization. They accuse him of having camouflaged various alleged contradictions within traditional Hinduism, and charge him with having appropriated the principles of Western religion to manufacture a unified world view and a set of practices known today as Hinduism.
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 ☆ Jugari Cross (Kannada & English with same title)

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In some readers' opinion, through this novel, K.P.Purnachandra Tejaswi is trying to open people's eyes to the loot and exploitation of environment that's happening in Malenadu region of Karnataka, changing times and modernisation that has left many tribes jobless.
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 ☆ Kaadina Kategalu

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Very interesting and amazing books (bundle of 4 books) that talk about rich forests of South Bharat!
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 ☆ Mother Teresa - The Untold Story

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"The popular tendency is to deify myths, priests, nuns and personalities without investigating the claims thoroughly. Mother Teresa is one such name. Does Mother Teresa deserve her reputation as the most charitable person who ever lived? This book makes for a gripping but disconcerting read. Brilliant, heroic, devastating" - Dr. William Radice, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

"Necessary, well-documented" - The Times Higher Education Supplement, London.

"Painstakingly recorded, (exposes) the other side of Teresa" - Irish Independent, Dublin.

"Written with painstaking care" - The Telegraph, Kolkata.

"Dr. Chatterjee tackles the inaccuracies, misconceptions and the elaborate propaganda machine enacted to portrait the albanian nun as relevant humanitarian" - Hemley Gonzalez, founder of Responsible Charity Corp.

"Mother teresa at some point in her career lost connection with reality and ballooned out of all proportion, serving the cause of the ecclesiastical politics of the Vatican rather than the cause of suffering humanity. Dr. Aroup Chatterjee does an excellent job in separating the reality from the layers of myth-making" - Dr. Ketaki Kushari Dyson, writer, translator, and researcher.
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 ☆ Mookajjiya Kanasugalu

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Very interesting book one must read to understand different 'idea of God'. Concept of God is bit different in the context of this book which will require some thinking on the matter.
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 ☆ Naayi Neralu

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In the context of this novel, Dog and Shadow are the symbols of our Karma which follow us through all our births. A good novel to read.
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 ☆ Parva (Kannada & English with same title)

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Parva is acknowledged to be S.L. Bhyrappa's greatest work. Non-Kannadigas who have read it in it's Hindi and Marathi translations consider it one of the masterpieces of modern Bharatian literature. It is a transformation of an ancient legend into a modern novel.
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 ☆ Something Happened on the Way to Heaven

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The inspiring true stories of the interesting people leave a permanent impression on us. Something Happened on the Way to Heaven is a collection of twenty such unforgettable true life stories selected by Sudha Murty.
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 ☆ The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

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A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word. Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than this one, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa.
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 ☆ Urban Naxals

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Vivek Agnihotri writes of his journey in making the film "Buddha in a Traffic Jam" which exposed the nexus between a Bharat-wide Maoist terror movement and their supporters in urban centers such as academia and media. Naxalites are waging war on Bharat with detailed plans for an overthrow of the State.

Urban Naxals act to amplify their message, serve as recruiters and wage a propaganda war through social and conventional media. This gripping story recounts Agnihotri's own grooming in college to be an Urban Naxal and details the plans and modus operandi of the movement.

This book is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Buddha in a Traffic Jam", the violent resistance to its screening and an expose of the worlds largest extreme-left terror movement and its penetration into urban Bharat.
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Bonus (Updated: 17-01-2020)

 ☆ The English Medium Myth

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Bharat has bought into the idea that progress is only possible with English medium studies. Engineering, medicine, law, High Courts function in Bharat only in English resulting in the rush to English medium. The English Medium Myth dismantles this idea. People in the richest countries are studying sciences in their mother tongue. Numerous studies show that better science outcomes from students learning in the own language.

To take Bharat on the next step to development, higher education needs to be broad-based and available in all Bharatian languages. The book contains specific policy proposals to make that a reality in a practical way and unleash Bharat’s talent in a globalized world.

About the Authors:

Sankrant Sanu is an author, technologist and entrepreneur. He was a senior development manager at Microsoft where he co-founded Microsoft Sharepoint. Some of his essays were published by Rupa in the book 'Invading the Sacred'. He has written for Rediff, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Hindustan Times, Amar Ujala, Manushi and Seeking Alpha among others.

Rajiv Malhotra is an Bharatian-American researcher, writer, speaker and public intellectual on current affairs as they relate to civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, religion and science. Rajiv has conducted original research in a variety of fields and has influenced many other thinkers in Bharat and the West.

Carl Clemens is a software developer and architect who currently works in Seattle. His education includes a Masters in Public Policy and Administration. He has an interest in the philosophy of science, religion, and general semantics.

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