 In the 1998 U.S. edition, and in one or two European translations of his novel, he used the
name "Avatar Prabhu", reverting to Richard Crasta in 2000.In 2000, he published "Impressing the Whites".Five years later, he published two other books, "What We All Need", entirely his own, and "Fathers, Rebels and Dreamers", compiled with two of his Mangalorean friends Arunachalam Kumar, conservationist, and Ralph Nazareth, poet and professor.