Richard Crasta: 7 books

In this revised, first e-book edition of his controversial collection of personal and political essays, humor, and satire, the author of "The Revised Kama Sutra" comments on a range of subjects, from India's sexual confusion to the colonization of the Indian mind. Arguing for true freedom for...

In this comical, passionate, satirical, and sincere book, The White God delivers "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites" to a brown "Moses." Inscribed on two coconuts, the Commandments sum up both the secrets of success for brown/colored writers, entrepreneurs,...

Writers and artists who are fathers; terrorist mothers-in-law; how to face the stealing of your children (including your book-children); this eclectic book on fatherhood and Mangalore from the author of the celebrated novel "The Revised Kama Sutra" is full of surprises, passion, poignancy,...

Conned Dee and Donald Ducksfeld “discover” the Al Stinkeroo, Iraq’s megafartacious SWMD, and demand that Iraq be totally disarmed--every steel knife and fork in the country is to be confiscated and replaced with plastic equivalents to be supplied by the Unholy Bottom Corporation, of which Dick...

A subjective impression of life in Mangalore, which with its churches, convents, seminaries, and Jesuit schools, loomed large in the imagination of the author, as he was growing up, and made a deep impression on his mind: fiction and essays celebrating and analyzing Mangalore's Catholic community.....

An Indian teenager growing into manhood, pursuing love and sex, finds that his progress, stalled for years, is suddenly moving along at lightning speed, thanks partly to his introduction to French kissing and to women who teach him how to kiss and then fall under his spell ... or perhaps, the other...

As the author explains it: When I first came to America from India a few decades back, many Americans thought that India meant sacred cows, starving millions, snake charmers, monkeys, and elephants. Which upset me, because though one of my aunts was indeed a cow, the monkeys in my family had descended...