Author Event: Neeva Pradhan Discusses her book

Author Event: Neeva Pradhan Discusses her book “The Best of Both Worlds”

Date and Time

Mar 15, 2015 5:00 pm

Location

450K

450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001

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Description:

Join author Neeva Pradhan as she discusses and signs her book The Best of Both Worlds: A Pioneer's Perspective on Straddling East and West.

This book details the challenges of holding on to one’s roots while adapting to life in a new country, and the attempts to bridge the gap between two starkly different cultures.

In a thoughtful and compelling narrative, Neeva Pradhan relays the story of her upbringing in Nepal, the challenges she encountered upon arriving in the U.S. as a student, and the crucial questions she confronted as she raised a family in her adopted homeland. Full of humor as well as myriad perspectives on the immigrant experience, Pradhan offers keen insight into the art of balancing the values with which she was raised and the attitudes of the country to which she immigrated. Capturing the best of both worlds is an ongoing adventure that consists of great challenge yet also profound fulfillment.

About the author:

Neeva Mathema Pradhan is the President of the Daya Foundation (DayaFoundation.org.np), an organization dedicated to the spread of education and health among disadvantaged communities and the promotion of traditional and modern cultures among Nepalese youth. She was the Vice President of Lending and Marketing for a Federal Credit Union in the D.C. metro area. She is a practitioner

and volunteer with the Art of Living Foundation (AOLF) and the International Association for Human Values (IAHV). She regularly conducts stress management and corporate workshops in the USA and Nepal. The parents of two sons, Neeva and her husband now share their time between Washington, D.C. and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Free and open to all!

Books will be for sale at the event.

Sponsored by MASCOT BOOKS

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