Nepal, May 17 -- hile studying at Princeton, Sangita Shresthova was asked to perform a Nepali dance at a program. She did, and a local newspaper carried a photo with the caption, 'Native of Nepal'.

But she recalls feeling like an impostor. Her father is Nepali, her mother Czech. She is married to a Gujrati from India and she is raising a son in Los Angeles.

All this makes Shresthova a 'Third Culture Kid' (TCK) and the right person to write this guide on cross-cultural upbringing that is useful not just for parents and grandparents in international marriages, but for everyone else in a multicultural world.

Cross-Cultural Parenting Playbook is a much-awaited manual for an interconnected Nepali diaspora across the globe finding partners f...