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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.

In this story, a father who is strongly attached to his young children finds himself estranged from their mother and tricked into entering a trap, and his major concern, now, is his children. "What did the children see? What did the young, impressionable children that he so loved, and who loved their father, see?" This is a tale of love, sex, power, and of the Indian Matriarchy (which you probably have never heard of), but mainly of children and fathers, and modern fatherhood. To quote a few paragraphs: "Nothing can be changed now. It is all over (except in the mind, in the conscience, in the universe of good and evil, where it can never be over). And though it is all over, and nothing can be changed, the story must be told. The story demands to be told. Because the truth is the truth is the truth. Let us not, as the years pass, fear to tell the truth, just because it is old, just because time has passed, just because all reality is ephemeral and life is short.

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"

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.

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.

Richard Crasta, a Mangalore-bred, Bangalore-born Indian, decided at an early age that he would become a writer, and that his main focus would be to write on behalf of freedom and justice for all, but especially for children, who often are weak and don’t have anyone to support their point of view. In his fifteenth and sixteenth years, he came across powerfully convincing endorsements for an American business called “Famous Writers School,”—where, he felt, his talents would be recognized, because  America was a free and fair country, one whose ideals were: freedom and equal justice. He felt, at the time, that the United States of America was the best place to fulfill such a dream: to write (being a writer was the best job in the world next to president of the United States). And if Saul Bellow could write so beautifully, and also become a millionaire as a result (after all, he had won the Nobel Prize, and had written bestsellers), why not he too? This was his American Dream, and he wrote what he considered to be one of the boldest novels ever written by an Indian writer writing in English. But then, after a year or two of working for his dream in America, where most ordinary people had not heard of Famous Writers School (it was a scam, at least the “famous”part), he realized that this degree of total freedom was not equally available to brown and black writers. He decided to tell his now-expanded story: the story of his struggle for Indian literary freedom on the world stage. This book could also have been titled A Richard Crasta Reader or A Richard Crasta Sampler, and subtitled The Struggle for Indian Literary Freedom in New York and London. Why London and New York? which are the capitals of Western publishing (and of literary colonialism?)? And many others may not understand until you read this sampler, or the three books of Richard Crasta's Freedom Trilogy.