Multi Order Books

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.

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.      

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.

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.

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.