Richard Crasta

Richard Crasta Biography

Richard Crasta is an Indian American writer of Bangalore origin. He earned fame as a novelist and most of his works have strong Indian flavours. He spent two decades in America, and later moved to Asia. The Revised Kamasutra: A Novel of Colonialism and Desire (1993), Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex (1997), Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery (2000), One little Indian (2003), What We All Need: An Anti-Terrorist Book of Incompletions, Unsafe Love, and Writing While Brown (2005), Fathers, Rebels and Dreamers (co-author) (2005), The Killing of an Author: Jackie Kennedy, Sonny Pfizer, Seven Little Ayatollahs and a Suicide Pact (2008) and I Will NOT Go the F**k to Sleep (2011) are his published works till now.

Richard Crasta was born in Bangalore, as the son of John Baptist Crasta and Christine Crasta in 1952. His family originally hailed from Kinnigoli in South Canara district, near Mangalore, where he grew up. His father was a war prisoner of World War II, who survived a Japanese prison camp and later his memoirs were published by his son. Richard Crasta was brought up in a strict Catholic Christian upbringing. He started writing at the age of 10, and his first novel had 10,000 words.

After graduation, he got through Indian Administrative Service, and served decorative positions like Assistant Commissioner, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Special Deputy Commissioner etc. After serving IAS for 4 years, he moved to US in 1979. He taught English there and continued with his literal works. He also completed his Master’s in English literature. As a writer he published his first book - The Revised Kamasutra: A Novel of Colonialism and Desire in 1993.

Published: November 04, 2018

Updated: November 04, 2018