Richard Crasta is the author of numerous works of fiction, memoir, and satire exploring family, exile, love, betrayal, and the comic absurdities of modern life in India and America.
Over several decades, he has written under multiple names and in multiple genres, ranging from literary fiction to humor and cultural satire.
He is currently revising and preparing selected works for republication, including some of his most personal and ambitious books.
His writing is marked by candor, irony, and a deep concern with the emotional lives of ordinary people.
Further information and new publications will be announced here.
Above all, “The Revised Kama Sutra” is a novel of joyful laughter and recognition at the human experiment, seen without blinders or self-censorship. As one woman reader from New York put it:
“Any book that can force me, against my will, to guffaw out loud while reading it in public places is to be treasured. “The Revised Kama Sutra” was as rife with inventive comic imagery as “A Confederacy of Dunces,” as insightful and subtly searing as “Catcher in the Rye,” and as sensuous as the Kama Sutra itself. Although I’ve never been to India, I felt I experienced the lively streets, people, colors, aromas, shapes and sounds of the cities mentioned in the book right along with the author. It’s a cliche to say, “you’ll laugh, you’ll cry!,” but that truly is the case with this book–I recommend it, you’ll savor each page.–“A Customer”
A sensation and brief Indian bestseller, Impressing the Whites has resonated with both nonwhite and white readers for its part-comic Fourteen Commandments of Indian and Nonwhite Male Success, Booker Prize tips, and soulful analysis of ethnic shame, spiritual colonialism, and how to answer your son when he asks you if he is black. This latest edition also discusses Barack Obama and the White Tiger.
Eaten by the Japanese is the only surviving World War II memoir by an Indian Prisoner of War of the Japanese among the thousands of Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army who were shipped by their Japanese captors in “torture ships” to New Britain (now part of Papua New Guinea) and Palau, and how only a fraction of them, including the author, survived.
Richard Crasta is the author of the bestselling and widely published novel The Revised Kama
Sutra, and more than fourteen other books.
He is also the father of three sons, who were all born while he was still writing his first novel: an immensely productive phase, for him.
He now lives part of the time in Southeast Asia, mainly in Cambodia, and he also spends some time in the U.S. every year or two. He is working on many other books, which he wishes to present to the world before he says goodbye to it.
The Revised Kama Sutra could be the story of your life . . . Its approach to sex is warm, sensitive and very, very funny.
Indefatigable good humor transcends the personal to stand for the contradictions of India as a whole. Considerable charm.
[Eaten by the Japanese is] a tale of unmitigated horror. A handsome tribute to a man of courage and rectitude.
I salute you as a full-fledged colleague. Yes, I am reading you and finding you very funny!
Absolutely spectacular . . .a hilarious novel, full of wit and glib language, with a whole lot of compassion thrown in.
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