Richard Crasta is an Indian American writer and novelist.
He grew up in Mangalore, lived in the United States for twenty years, mostly in the New York metropolitan area, and now spends much of his time in Asia. His works include the comic and frankly sexual coming-of-age novel, The Revised Kama Sutra (published in seven languages and ten countries to date), and fiction and nonfiction books such as Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery; Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex; the semi-fictional What We All Need; and The Killing of an Author.
Richard Crasta was born in Bangalore, India. He had a middle-class Catholic upbringing in Mangalore. He began writing when he was ten.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics, History, and Political Science from the University of Mysore in 1972. He was eventually accepted into the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), through which he became the Assistant Commissioner. Crasta traveled to the United States in 1979, enrolling in the American University in Washington, D.C. He worked for a New York literary agency and taught English at a New York college through 1981. Crasta edited and contributed to the essays Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoirs of an Unknown Indian Soldier, by John Baptist Crasta, his father, in India in 1998. (Collected from the public domain)
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