Richard Crasta, Author

RICHARD CRASTA'S INTERVIEW WITH THE HINDU, a major Indian newspaper published from multiple Indian cities, 2010: Full Text and Clarifications. To fill in the gaps in sense and context that may have been caused by the abbreviated version that was published, here are the questions that I received and my written answers (some of the questions read like shorthand, but we writers have to work within these parameters). This interview is fixated on the novel's subversive title and its apparent (superficial) subject; there have been other interviews with a different focus, for example at http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/judging-not-by-the-cover/205741.html : 1)             ‘The Revised Kamasura’ and a subtitle saying ‘The Novel’, is it some clarification for people to not get confused? A: The first edition came with the subtitle: “A Novel of Colonialism and Desire with Arbitrary Footnotes & a Whimsical Glossary”. To any intelli...

Press Release: Bangalore, Sept 4, 2010. Former Indian Supreme Court Justice and present Lokayukta Justice Santhosh Hegde, famous and well-loved for being a fearless crusader for integrity and against corruption in Indian public life, will be releasing the new HarperCollins edition of Richard Crasta’s novel “The Revised Kama Sutra” in Bangalore at Reliance Timeout, Cunningham Road, on June 9 at 6:30 pm. Richard Crasta's five other titles, which are almost impossible to find in Indian bookstores, will also be on sale at this Reliance Timeout branch. (The following is partly from the HarperCollins press release) The Revised Kama Sutra created waves when it was first published seventeen years ago, in December 1993, becoming a Viking Penguin bestseller, praised by reviewers as courageous, honest, fresh, and fascinating. Now hailed as a classic, Richard Crasta’s gloriously comic and poignant insight into naive Third World dreamers of the American Dream is a veritable guide to the Indi...