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Impressing the whites: The new international slavery

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Mr. Lakshminarayan's review is not a review at all; it's a smug and self-satisfied misreading of Nietzsche and Foucault, a transparent piece of projection/reaction formation. Ignore it. This book is not intended to change the world, but rather to reflect it in such a way that the reader laughs, squirms, recognizes his/her own hypocrisy and the blatant absurdity of most unquestioned social conventions. In this, Crasta succeeds in ways not unlike Sasha Baron Cohen's Borat character or Chris Rock race routines succeed, i.e., brilliantly. As social criticism the book is potent enough, but the sheer zany exuberance of it all make it far more than that-a delicious and mischievious pleasure. Highly recommended.

A thoughtful and very interesting book. A must for everyone who wants to have a better understanding of "The Other" in this case Indians. This is a book for those looking for an authentic Indian voice, unlike the usual brown sahibs paraded by the Western publishing Industry.

Mallika

"Goes where no man has gone before," said the Asian Age. It took me a lot of courage to write this book . . . which has such chapters as "The Occidental Cow" and "Daddy, Am I a Black". At times serious, at times funny. Modesty prevents me from rating it with more than three stars, though I was tempted to try three and a half.

Richard Crasta's book has some entertainment reading value. Beyond that there is not much of a message that will have any kind of impact. I am sorry to see that the author has such a negative view on life and humanity. Realistically nobody, white or black, is going to either share its power or give it away without being compensated. For the disempowered, the empowerment has to come from within, only the encouragement can come from outside. Otherwise one has to go begging for power. Even if one gets it, it will not stay unless it is earned.

Striving for equality is a nice ideal but in reality it goes against human nature. Facilitating equality is noble while asking for it is begging and demanding it is foolish. We live in a society that believes, rightly or wrongly, that even the God has his own chosen people. If one wants an altruistic king he needs to wait for another Gandhi. Mahatmas are not born that often. Even though the situation is undesirable the third world and the black/brown population need to deal with it and focus its efforts to make it better.

Life is not fair and it was never meant to be. Some got a lot, some got less but striving will make one a better person than complaining or begging.