  One of the funniest and most original Indian novels ever, this is the story of Vijay Prabhu, a small-town Indian boy, survivor of assorted Jesuit and convent boarding schools and the Five Pillars of Oppression--bells, canes, penis shame, girl shame, and sports. Filled with cruelly uncontrollable erotic longing and a desire to escape the floor-sweeping skirts of Mangalore, he embarks on a sexual and spiritual odyssey that ends in America, the land of free sex, greenbacks, and Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup.  Along the way, this cult classic, hailed as a landmark by Khushwant Singh, gives us new and glorious insights into childhood, desire, ambition, sex, and naïve Third World dreamers of the American Dream.  "Irreverent, unputdownable . . . has a comic timing never seen in any Indian novel to date." --The Indian Express "Encapsulates the feelings of an entire generation of Indian men."--Masala Magazine, New York "Should be read for the sheer pleasure of reading." --The Pioneer

Revised Kama Sutra

Richard Crasta

Literature & Fiction

Fourth Estate

Impressing the whites: The new international slavery

In this tongue-in-cheek, satirical, yet passionately idealistic book, a White God delivers "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites": a guide for non-white people wishing to succeed in the West. Darker than "How to Be Black" (Baratunde) and funnier and more readable by far than "Orientalism" (Edward Said), the book examines the dilemma faced by non-whites who must strive to be found worthy by the West in order to succeed in their own countries. It ends with practical suggestions on how to avoid the truth-subverting games the races now play and be truer to their authentic selves. Controversial in India (where it was briefly featured on Outlook India's bestseller list), the book was discussed on Indian national television and also on BBC World, and ferociously attacked in some newspapers, but has been studied at an American university and also in South Africa. "The reader laughs, squirms, recognizes his/her own hypocrisy and the blatant absurdity of most unquestioned social conventions. In this, Crasta succeeds [in ways that] Chris Rock race routines succeed, i.e., brilliantly. Zany exuberance . . . mischievous pleasure."--Frank Feldman "Boldly goes where no Indian writer has gone before."--The Asian Age, Book Pick of the Fortnight.

Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery

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