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The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel

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This one of a kind, Kurt Vonnegut-moving and comic coming-of-age novel is set in a part of South India in which coconut trees, cobras, Catholic churches, and tiger dancers coexist with delicious fish and meat curries. Here, growing up, as an Indian boy with an American Dream set on fire by a dashingly handsome John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie, and by Readers Digest and Time magazine.. "The ... Read more

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This one of a kind, Kurt Vonnegut-moving and comic coming-of-age novel is set in a part of South India in which coconut trees, cobras, Catholic churches, and tiger dancers coexist with delicious fish and meat curries. Here, growing up, as an Indian boy with an American Dream set on fire by a dashingly handsome John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie, and by Readers Digest and Time magazine.. "The
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Benzo Land: How Drug Companies Enslave Us

by Richard Crasta ...

Benzodiazepines, a class of tranquilizers and sleeping pills (such as Valium, Xanax, and Ambien--almost all chemicals ending with the suffix "zepam") are often mindlessly and irresponsibly prescribed by doctors. These doctors have been brainwashed about the merits of these drugs by unethical drug companies.The result: the drugs, being highly addictive, end up enslaving millions, in body and mind. ... Read more

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Benzodiazepines, a class of tranquilizers and sleeping pills (such as Valium, Xanax, and Ambien--almost all chemicals ending with the suffix "zepam") are often mindlessly and irresponsibly prescribed by doctors. These doctors have been brainwashed about the merits of these drugs by unethical drug companies.The result: the drugs, being highly addictive, end up enslaving millions, in body and mind.
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One Little Indian

by Richard Crasta ...

This novel is an Indian "Angela's Ashes," one in which the little Vijay Prabhu, connecting with Robin Hood, John F. Kennedy, and Western movies, has to make a slight readjustment to his dreams. Instead of becoming a Pope or a saint, he dreams of going to America, the land of milk, honey, and Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup and becoming a millionaire philanthropist.A complete novel in itself, "One ... Read more

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This novel is an Indian "Angela's Ashes," one in which the little Vijay Prabhu, connecting with Robin Hood, John F. Kennedy, and Western movies, has to make a slight readjustment to his dreams. Instead of becoming a Pope or a saint, he dreams of going to America, the land of milk, honey, and Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup and becoming a millionaire philanthropist.A complete novel in itself, "One
... Read more
A Freedom Anthology: An Indian Independence Day Special Edition

by Richard Crasta ...

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 for freedom and justice. He felt, at the time, that the United States of America was the best place to fulfill such a dream. This was his American Dream, and he wrote what he considered to be the boldest novel ever written by an Indian. But then, ... Read more

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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 for freedom and justice. He felt, at the time, that the United States of America was the best place to fulfill such a dream. This was his American Dream, and he wrote what he considered to be the boldest novel ever written by an Indian. But then,
... Read more
What the Children Saw

by Richard Crasta ...

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Works in Progress (2021)

by Richard Crasta ...

"Works in Progress (2021)" is a smorgasbord of nine widely varying pieces: joyful, contemplative, humorous, serious (a public interest essay), personal essays, and dark stories, many of which are almost ready to publish independently, but will cost much more if purchased separately. The memory tax, family pride and ancestor snobbery placed in context (Letters to the Dead), our attitudes to beggars ... Read more

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"Works in Progress (2021)" is a smorgasbord of nine widely varying pieces: joyful, contemplative, humorous, serious (a public interest essay), personal essays, and dark stories, many of which are almost ready to publish independently, but will cost much more if purchased separately. The memory tax, family pride and ancestor snobbery placed in context (Letters to the Dead), our attitudes to beggars
... Read more
Country Matters: A Personal History of Swear Words

by Richard Crasta ...

In this humorous and playful short book arguing against censorship of language and recounting his own evolution from repressed prude to libertarian, freewheeling slinger of juicy-Lucy words, the author suggests that sexual words, slang, and wordplay are "to be celebrated as joyous, vital, funny, juicy, the very essence of life. Man is a neutered animal without them; polite language is effete, ... Read more

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In this humorous and playful short book arguing against censorship of language and recounting his own evolution from repressed prude to libertarian, freewheeling slinger of juicy-Lucy words, the author suggests that sexual words, slang, and wordplay are "to be celebrated as joyous, vital, funny, juicy, the very essence of life. Man is a neutered animal without them; polite language is effete,
... Read more
Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery

by Richard Crasta ...

In this comical, passionate, satirical, and sincere book, The White God delivers "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites" to a brown "Moses."Inscribed on two coconuts, the Commandments sum up both the secrets of success for brown/colored writers, entrepreneurs, and artists, and the distortions caused by race politics and realities in the modern world of Obama (whose hair, a comedian ... Read more

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In this comical, passionate, satirical, and sincere book, The White God delivers "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites" to a brown "Moses."Inscribed on two coconuts, the Commandments sum up both the secrets of success for brown/colored writers, entrepreneurs, and artists, and the distortions caused by race politics and realities in the modern world of Obama (whose hair, a comedian
... Read more
Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex

by Richard Crasta ...

Indians and sexual liberation, American politics, Bill Clinton, Western feminism transplanted into Asia, Miss World Sushmita Sen, Khushwant Singh on Indian sexual hypocrisy, beauty contests, free expression and Indians--a multitude of subjects--political, sexual, social, and humorous--are addressed in this controversial book of essays and fiction originally published by HarperCollins India in 1997 ... Read more

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Indians and sexual liberation, American politics, Bill Clinton, Western feminism transplanted into Asia, Miss World Sushmita Sen, Khushwant Singh on Indian sexual hypocrisy, beauty contests, free expression and Indians--a multitude of subjects--political, sexual, social, and humorous--are addressed in this controversial book of essays and fiction originally published by HarperCollins India in 1997
... Read more
Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex

by Richard Crasta ...

In this revised, first e-book edition of his controversial collection of personal and political essays, humor, and satire, the author of "The Revised Kama Sutra" comments on a range of subjects, from India's sexual confusion to the colonization of the Indian mind. Arguing for true freedom for Indians as well as for writers of Indian origin, he also discusses identity & nationalism.The book's title ... Read more

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In this revised, first e-book edition of his controversial collection of personal and political essays, humor, and satire, the author of "The Revised Kama Sutra" comments on a range of subjects, from India's sexual confusion to the colonization of the Indian mind. Arguing for true freedom for Indians as well as for writers of Indian origin, he also discusses identity & nationalism.The book's title
... Read more
Fathers and Sons: Essays, Letters, Memories

by Richard Crasta ...

How a son's eyes were opened to his father's greatness, and how this son (now a father) realized what fatherhood does to a man. Variegated stories that dive deep into the emotions, experiences and exhilaration that defines fatherhood.A quote from a passionate letter in this short book: "In principle, I would want every father to be reunited with his sons: [It] would result in more happiness, more ... Read more

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How a son's eyes were opened to his father's greatness, and how this son (now a father) realized what fatherhood does to a man. Variegated stories that dive deep into the emotions, experiences and exhilaration that defines fatherhood.A quote from a passionate letter in this short book: "In principle, I would want every father to be reunited with his sons: [It] would result in more happiness, more
... Read more
I Will Not Go the F**k to Sleep

by Richard Crasta ...

This highly varied humor collection, formerly a No. 2 humor bestseller, begins with an imaginary child's humorous response to "Go the F**k to Sleep" (a 2011 megaseller), asking:--What if a child, asked to go the f**k to sleep by its father, could respond in adult language?--What does a Daddy do if the new kitten and the Baby are at war?--Imagine 100 Indian super-yogis exported to the USA to help ... Read more

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This highly varied humor collection, formerly a No. 2 humor bestseller, begins with an imaginary child's humorous response to "Go the F**k to Sleep" (a 2011 megaseller), asking:--What if a child, asked to go the f**k to sleep by its father, could respond in adult language?--What does a Daddy do if the new kitten and the Baby are at war?--Imagine 100 Indian super-yogis exported to the USA to help
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