The Revised Kama Sutra describes an Indian boy’s journey from The Five Pillars of Oppression, poverty and Catholic brainwashing through an incredibly twisted personal and sexual journey that finally sees him in America and makes him come to terms with his humanity.
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.
This highly varied humor collection, which was a No. 2 humor bestseller for 6 weeks, begins with a humorous response to the bestselling Go the F**k to Sleep, then going on to report the comic side of outsourcing jobs to India, exotic upperclass Indian weddings, kittens at war with babies, a revised Genesis story, and a plan to balance the budget by holding a fire sale of nukes. Political, sexual, family, and general humor and satire.
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. His latest short book is titled What We All Need: A Prescription for World Peace and Happiness. Along with it, he has also released a short book titled What the Children Saw –a story of Indian feudalism, divorce, and fatherhood, and the questions we need to ask ourselves about our children.
In the last few years, he has been spending most of his time in Cambodia, where he is working on five books in progress and fighting the Parkinson’s Disease he has been suffering from for the last five years.
Why Cambodia? Because it is the only non-puritanical country that he can afford to live in, and visa extensions are easy; also, he cannot bear the North American winters.
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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