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  • The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel

    by Richard Crasta ...
    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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killing Me Softly: A Report from Benzo Land

    by Richard Crasta ...
    Benzodiazepines (sedatives like Valium, Xanax, and Ambien) are dangerously addictive, and unethical drug companies and doctors are causing the slow deaths of millions of people worldwide, the dangers being relatively underreported. Quoting independent medical authorities, his own experience. Detailing the effects, he makes an Impassioned appeal on behalf of all who suffer, most often silently, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Will Not Go the F**k to Sleep

    by Richard Crasta ...
    By a widely published author and father of 3 children, 8 books, and one kicking and screaming Inner Child that refuses to go to sleep or to grow up, this highly varied humor collection (with two pieces about Daddies) imagines:--What if a child, asked to go the f**k to sleep by its father, came up with imaginative excuses, in adult language?--A band of 5000 yogis with bad accents flown in from ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • 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

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Catholic Colony: An Indian Catholic Childhood: Fiction and Essays

    by Richard Crasta ...
    A subjective impression of life in Mangalore, which with its churches, convents, seminaries, and Jesuit schools, loomed large in the imagination of the author, as he was growing up, and made a deep impression on his mind: fiction and essays celebrating and analyzing Mangalore's Catholic community.. The fiction includes overheard conversations among Mangalorean bluebloods (no relation of the Bloods ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What We All Need

    by Richard Crasta ...
    What do you really need? Mostly, what we all need: Love, sex, comfort, food, laughter, a child who loves you as much as you do him, mental stimulation, massage, travel, understanding, freedom, truth, happiness, peace, and a history of the world that provides a greater understanding of the role played by peckers. This subversive comic-erotic anthology of fiction and nonfiction playfully discusses ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • 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

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oh Calcutta! Oh!

    by Richard Crasta ...
    Henry Miller meets Robin Williams and Philip Roth in this exuberant, madly excessive sexual rant from a young Indian man growing up in a repressive India and dreaming "of a f**kland that could never be." This was the basis for "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel," and is unlike anything seen until that time from an Indian writer.Around 5,000 words. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD