Richard Crasta, a Mangalore-bred, Bangalore-born Indian, decided at an early age that he would become a writer, and that his main focus would be to write for freedom and justice. He felt, at the time, that the United States of America was the best place to fulfill such a dream. This was his American Dream, and he wrote what he considered to be the boldest novel ever written by an Indian. But then, he realized that this freedom was not available to brown and black writers. He decided to tell his now-expanded story: the story of his struggle for Indian literary freedom on the world stage. This collection could also have been titled A RIchard Crasta Reader or A Richard Crasta Sampler, and subtitled The Struggle for Indian Literary Freedom in New York and London.
Why London and New York? which are the capitals of Western publishing (and of literary colonialism?)? You won't understand until you read this sampler,
