Beauty Queens, Children, and the Death of Sex

In his HarperCollins-published second book, a collection of essays and fiction, Richard Crasta writes with passion and humor about India’s sexual revolution, with its paradoxes such as beauty queens facing rioters proclaiming beauty contests to be un-Indian, West-inspired feminism, colonization, sexual hypocrisy, free expression, and how children affect marital sex, and free expression. This revised 2014 edition contains new material.

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In his HarperCollins-published second book, a collection of essays and fiction, Richard Crasta writes with passion and humor about India’s sexual revolution, with its paradoxes such as beauty queens facing rioters proclaiming beauty contests to be un-Indian, West-inspired feminism, colonization, sexual hypocrisy, free expression, and how children affect marital sex, and free expression.

This 2014 edition includes new essays, while retaining most of the old, including the Khushwant Singh interview in which the forthright and courageous Indian columnist/author proclaims that “Indian women are as lusty as any.” This is also an occasion to skewer American politics (the author had already been living in the US for 18 years at the time of the book’s original publication), U.S. imperialism, and Indian prime ministers Narasimha Rau and Deve Gowda. And to suggest that the Western policy towards independent brown people (who, as comedian George Carlin observed, had begun to become the major targets for America’s bombing practice) is one of neutering them.

“His subjects inspire the sparkling best in him and his fine prose is as sparkling as ever with wit, racy yet refined.”– Indian Express

“Pungent, witty and incisive . . . leaves the reader surprised, provoked and sometimes outraged. Guaranteed to make a good read.” — Press Trust of India

“After his best-selling The Revised Kama Sutra, Richard Crasta is back with another enjoyable book. Flippant and full of satire . . . full of subtle humor, the book takes a lighter look at contemporary India . . . telling it like it is–no holds barred. Not your average humour but a classy, welcome change. Get it.” — Femina

“Biting, cynical . . . zany sense of humour.” — India Today