Richard Crasta

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Richard Crasta, born in Bangalore, India, is an Indian writer who grew up in Mangalore, has lived in the United States for twenty years, mostly in the New York metropolitan region, and now spends much of his time in Asia. His works include the comic and frankly sexual coming of age novel The Revised Kamasutra (published in seven languages and ten countries to date) and nonfiction and essay collections like Impressing the Whites; Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex the semi-fictional What We All Need, and The Killing of an Author. He is known for his fierce anti-establishment style and his humor; a short sampler of his work was titled The Unauthorized India Kurt Vonnegut, who was mentioned in the dedication to the American edition of his novel, described his novel as "very funny."

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The Revised Kamasutra: A Novel of Colonialism and Desire
Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery
Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex
What We All Need: An Anti-Terrorist Book of Incompletions, Unsafe Love, and Writing While Brown
Fathers, Rebels and Dreamers
The Killing of an Author: Jackie Kennedy, Sonny Pfizer, Seven Little Ayatollahs and a Suicide Pact (formal launch April 2008)