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What do all humans need, besides the food, shelter, peace, love, laughter, freedom, and perhaps some “loving early in the morning”? What We All Need combines sex, humor, and anti-war satire with a host of other subjects, such as Indonesian love, Bill Clinton’s famous pecker, and chemical slavery.

A Novel About Joy for a Time of Joy The joy has returned to America, so the media tells us, and it’s largely true: a laughing black woman with immense poise and self-confidence and grace has charmed a majority of Americans. Time for joy in literature: "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"

This laugh-out loud, yet poignant true story of an ambitious and ballsy Indian writer navigating the maze that is Western publishing illustrates the immense battle that a new writer must face for writing an unconventional, norm-defying book and contains lessons for would-be authors and general readers’ romantic notions of book publishing.

Nuns, Jesuits, red meat, and an Indian Catholic minority feature in this novel, set almost entirely in Mangalore, and these are combined with Indian cuisine and childhood emotions such as motherlove, fear of abandonment, curiosity, and desire. So do puberty, adolescence, and the awakening of a repressed mind, clamoring for justice and truth. The result is a blend of Angela's Ashes, Catcher in the Rye, and Portnoy's Complaint.

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.

A selection of joyful and exuberant excerpts from a few of the author’s best books, in addition to a few essays expressing his thoughts on writing, publishing, censorship, and his long struggle for freedom of expression.

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.

Long before Netflix’s history of swear words series, Richard Crasta had had to grapple with swear words or sexual words in writing and speech. This humorous and playful short book argues against censorship of language and recounts his own growth from repressed prude to libertarian.    

Benzo Land is a public interest book on the phenomenon of tens of millions of accidental or bamboozled addicts of Benzodiazepines the world over. The book points to multinational pharmaceutical companies as major culprits who have for decades kept doctors, the media, and the public in the dark about the lasting and addictive dangers of Benzodiazepines, which are among the most profitable legal drugs in the world.

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.