By a widely published author and the father of 3 children and one kicking and screaming Inner Child that refuses to go to sleep or to grow up, this humor collection imagines: --What if a child, asked to go the f*** to sleep by its father, could respond in adult language? --5,000 yogis flown in from India specifically to balance India's budget deficit by spilling hot coffee on their laps at 5,000 McDonald's restaurants. --A Nuclear Weapons fire sale to overcome America's budget deficit. --The outsourcing of the Great American Novel to India, where literary sweatshop workers churn out such...

"Eaten by the Japanese" is the inspiring World War II memoir of an Indian soldier in the British Indian Army--a rare surviving account from among the thousands of Indians who were trapped in World War II, suffered, and lost their lives. Captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell, taking a moral decision not to trust the Japanese or to desert to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, he is taken to Rabaul in New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in a "torture ship," he miraculously survives 3 1/2 years of inhuman treatment by his Japanese captors and bombardment by Allied planes. Rescued by...

From "Wooing the Virgin Mary While Smoking in the Attic" to "In what order do you love your mother, sister, and wife?" and "The police ...wanted to have fun with the girls " the earthy, talky, colloquial texture of South Indian life--centered around Mangalore--in this book of fiction and nonfiction is unlike anything else written about the town of Mangalore (unless it is the author's other book, the widely published novel "The Revised Kama Sutra." Despite its satirical and unsparing examination of the town and its people, the writer harbors a deep love and fascination for the city and the...

This is the expanded, larger-type edition of "Eaten by the Japanese."] "Eaten by the Japanese" is the inspiring World War II memoir of an Indian soldier in the British Indian Army--a rare surviving account of a story of thousands of Indians who have mostly been forgotten by history. Captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell, taking a moral decision not to trust the Japanese or to desert to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, he is taken to Rabaul in New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in a "torture ship," he miraculously survives 3 1/2 years of inhuman treatment by his Japanese...

Benzodiazepines, a class of tranquilizers and sleeping pills (which include Valium, Xanax, and Ambien) are often mindlessly and irresponsibly prescribed by doctors. These doctors have been brainwashed about the merits of these drugs by unethical drug companies. Author's clarification: I have good friends and ex-friends who are ethical, compassionate, and highly competent doctors. The title, which cannot be changed because of the publisher's policy, is not meant to refer to ALL doctors.] The result: the drugs, being highly addictive, end up enslaving millions, in body and mind. Many,...

Imagine Edward Said, George Carlin, and Malcolm X jointly writing a book about universal racism from a cosmopolitan Indian's perspective and compiling "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites" delivered by a White God? Impressing the Whites is exactly that kind of book. It had a controversial reception when first published in India, where it was featured on national television and briefly made an online bestseller list. Ferociously satirical and idealistic in turns, "Impressing the Whites" suggests ways in which the world might be made fairer for its increasingly multicolored...