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Member Since: June 09, 2010

Richard Crasta


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Richard Crasta was born in Bangalore, India, the son of a former World War II Prisoner of War who survived against great odds. He moved to America to become a writer and has published over 12 books, including 8 printed books. His novel "The Revised Kama Sutra" was a sensation and was published in 10 countries and seven languages, and called "very funny" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Where to find Richard Crasta online

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Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War    by John Baptist Crasta
Price: $3.99 USD. 31910 words. Published by Richard Crasta on March 29, 2011. .
John Baptist Crasta's only mistake was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time--Singapore, when the Japanese invaded--and to be a man of "rectitude and courage". His memoir tells of his miraculous survival through 3.5 years as a POW of the Japanese. The memoir itself miraculously survives 51 years until it is published by his son, just before his death!

Books

Lord Bush of Iraq: or, The Jolly Nuker of Baghdad    by Richard Crasta
Price: $2.99 USD. 12480 words. Published on December 18, 2011. Nonfiction.
Conned Dee and Donald Ducksfeld “discover” the Al Stinkeroo, Iraq’s megafartacious SWMD, and demand that Iraq be totally disarmed—every steel knife in the country to be confiscated and replaced with plastic knives. Meanwhile, in a dream, Little George Bush swears loyalty to Big Oil forever, and is knighted Lord Bush of Iraq. Dark Humor and Anti-War Satire
Father, Rebel, Dreamer    by Richard Crasta
Price: $1.99 USD. 22710 words. Published on June 4, 2011. Nonfiction.
Fathers, Dreamers, Children, Book-children, crooked publishers, terrorized fathers, Mothers-in-Law, and the Grand Old Man of Mangalore: this short anthology of essays and stories from a father, a rebel, and a writer is full of surprises, passion, and humor. For the sophisticated reader with a sense of humor but who does not shy away from the dark side of life.
I Will Not Go the F**k to Sleep    by Richard Crasta
Price: $4.99 USD. 31880 words. Published on June 4, 2011. Nonfiction.
What if a child, asked to go the f**k to sleep by its father, could respond in adult language? This anthology of humor by a father of three touches on a broad variety of subjects including politics, Nuclear Weapons, cats, Indians, yogis, Adam and Eve, and sex. For the broadminded and sophisticated reader who loves nonconformist humor. As a review put it: "For the rebel in you."
Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery    by Richard Crasta
Price: $6.99 USD. 59700 words. Published on April 9, 2011. Nonfiction.
Salman Rushdie, Barack Obama, Arundhati Roy, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin are among those who star in this discussion of international racial politics and the Commandments that non-white people must live by to get along and be successful. Satirical, witty, and provocative, this book probes the Secret Rules that even Obama must obey.
The Hunger for Touch and Love    by Richard Crasta
Price: $4.99 USD. 59910 words. Published on March 17, 2011. Nonfiction.
"The Hunger for Touch and Love" explores our deep hunger for touch and love, and how it shows in the explosive growth of massage establishments worldwide. Passionate, funny, and breathtakingly honest, this memoir of massage experiences worldwide is also an accidental consumer guide to the world of massage, written in the author's style of conveying information and humor often at the same time.
At the Heart of the Empire: Manifestos of an Indian Literary Freedom Fighter    by Richard Crasta
Price: $2.50 USD. 14330 words. Published on February 19, 2011. Essay.
The author of ten books including the widely published and acclaimed novel "The Revised Kama Sutra," expresses his opposition to literary apartheid and censorship in a series of lively Prefaces from his controversial books, a few of which have been unpublished or are out of print. A Manifesto for a Third World Literary Rebel who refuses to follow the agenda that others have set for him.
Mau-mauing the Chakras of the Bakras    by Richard Crasta
Price: $1.99 USD. 6840 words. Published on February 13, 2011. Nonfiction.
What do men really want? Why is it so easy to make bakras out of them? Bakra is an Indian word for a male sheep, or for a helpless, innocent, naive, needy male, a lamb led to slaughter. This humorous and sexy short-short book discusses the phenomenon of needy males who become bakras at the hands of empowered women, or those who know how to manipulate their chakras (energy centers). 4400 words.
The Terrorist in My Life    by Richard Crasta
Price: $3.99 USD. 17700 words. Published on October 9, 2010. Nonfiction.
In this shocking personal story, the author of 12 books, one of which was praised by Kurt Vonnegut as very funny, exposes the secret terrorist in his life. The carelessness of doctors and the blind profit-seeking of drug companies causes millions of accidental and life-destroying addictions, says this former husband of a New York psychiatrist.
The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel    by Richard Crasta
Price: $5.99 USD. 126470 words. Published on October 8, 2010. Fiction.
Vijay Prabhu grows up Catholic in an Indian town, determined to become the first Indian Pope. But when his first erection arrives and he repeatedly fails to lose his cherry, he decides to lose his religion instead, to enlist the aid of Jackie Kennedy, and to make love to 100 women by age 30. Who or what planted this unusual ambition in him, and what happens next? "Very funny"--Kurt Vonnegut.

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