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  • The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel

    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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  • Benzo Land: How Drug Companies Enslave Us

    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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  • One Little Indian

    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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  • A Freedom Anthology: An Indian Independence Day Special Edition

    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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  • Works in Progress (2021)

    "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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  • What the Children Saw

    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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  • Country Matters: A Personal History of Swear Words

    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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  • Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex

    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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  • Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex

    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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  • Lord Bush of Iraq: or, The Jolly Nuker of Baghdad

    Conned Dee and Donald Ducksfeld "discover" the Al Stinkeroo, Iraq's megafartacious SWMD, and demand that Iraq be totally disarmed--every steel knife and fork in the country is to be confiscated and replaced with plastic equivalents to be supplied by the Unholy Bottom Corporation, of which Dick Shinyhead, the American Vice President, was formerly the CEO.Meanwhile, in a dream, Little George Bush ... Read more

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  • The Case Against Mass Tourism and Zombie Tourism

    Though the right to travel and to move is precious, tourism on such a mass, industrial scale as at present has never been seen. Airports, roads, and many an ancient monument or historic city have millions of tourists descending on them. Is mass tourism destroying the environment and causing damage to native peoples and negatively affecting their rights, their lifestyles, and cultures? What about ... Read more

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  • Tell Your Sheep to Go the Bleep to Sleep

    An Indian and his cow, after having had a hot romance over a mu-mu platter, have a separation, . The little girl told to "go the expletive to sleep" comes up with ten unanswerable ways to say "No!" Hemingway is drunk and aroused as he rewrites The Great Gatsby, cows are interplanetary aliens in disguise, and George W. Bush and his National Spin Council plot to tell the American people, "I stand by ... Read more

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