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Author of 12 books, one of which has been published in ten countries and in seven languages, Richard Crasta was born in Bangalore, India, the son of a World War II veteran who survived 3 1/2 years as a Prisoner of War. Growing up in India, he was shaped by his peculiar South Indian Catholic-Hindu micro-universe, Time Magazine, Hollywood movies, and copies of Readers Digest that found their way into his small Indian town. Dreaming of becoming a writer, he found his way to America, and has been a New Yorker for over 20 years (though he has spent most of the last few years in Asia).

His books include fiction, nonfiction, essays, autobiography, humor, and satire, and have been described as "exuberant," "courageous," "hilarious," and "going where no Indian writer has gone before." He has been interviewed or written about in "The New York Times," BBC (television as well as the World service),… Read more

Richard Crasta (Konkani: रीचर्ड क्रास्ता (Devanagari), ವಿಕ್ಟೊರ್ ರೋದ್ರಿಗುಎಸ್ (Kannada); born 1952) is an Indian American writer and novelist, with a strong Indian identity in his writings. He is the author of the comic novel The Revised Kamasutra, nonfiction and essay collections like Impressing the Whites; Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex, and some semi-fictional works like What We All Need. His first novel The Revised Kama Sutra was published under the name of Avatar Prabhu in the United States and Germany. Crasta was born in Bangalore, India. He grew up in Mangalore and lived in India till the age of 26. After emigration to the United States, he lived mostly in the New York metropolitan area for 18 years. He spends most of his present time in Asia.

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