Richard Crasta, Author

I, for one, am grateful for "Mother's Day," which did not exist when I was growing up in India, and which I was introduced to only in America, where it has near-religious significance. Though nowhere as religious as Mother's Day (and possibly that's fair, because we don't spend nine months in our father's "womb", straining his resources and eating his food), Father's Day has begun to mean something to me too. Why? Because I'm a father--a proud father of three sons, whom I think of with love especially on this day. If you think Father's Day ought to be abolished, ask any father for his opinion. Fatherhood does not get the attention it deserves, and here is a day when people at least spend a few moments to take time off from the current obsessions of their culture, the media pap--nip slips, wardrobe malfunctions, stained dresses--to think about their fathers, and perhaps to wish them. (Other than that no father has ever given birth to ...

My late father, John Baptist Crasta, whose memoir Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War is available on Amazon and elsewhere as an e-book and paperback, here in some old photographs: Will someone please tell me if the man in the first picture pinning a medal on my father's chest is the man who turned out to be Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw? Above is the latest paperback edition of my father's book, and it features a photograph of him autographing the first edition at the age of 87. Thank you! Links: Eaten by the Japanese : http://myBook.to/B004UBFXFC http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50202 http://itunes.apple.com/uk/book/eaten-by-japanese-the-memoir/id436268256?mt=11 http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/eaten-by-japanese-the-memoir/id436268256?mt=11 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eaten-by-the-japanese-richard-crasta/1100079610?ean=2940011274305 http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Eaten-Japanese-The-Memoir-Unknown...