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I started to focus on writing creatively about Indian culture to teach my sons certain things I valued. Even though I also wrote training manuals and things like that while working as a CPA, I hadn’t been writing stories the way I had when I was growing up. What led you to write books on Indian culture? By profession, I’m a certified public accountant, and I worked in auditing, but when I came to the US and my first son was born, I wanted to spend more time with him, so I kept my hand in it without doing it full time.

We now live in East Brunswick, and one of the many reasons we love it is the excellent school system where my oldest son attends a charter school. We lived in Manhattan for six months before moving to Jersey City for more space for our growing family and then moving again for more space when our second child was due. My husband and I moved from Delhi, India, to the United States in 2014. What is your background, and where do you live? I grew up in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains, where my father owned a bookstore, and it’s where my love of books and the written word began. We caught up with this East Brunswick mom of two boys, ages 7 and 3, to talk about how her third book, Leaf Talks Peace–Buddha’s Message of Harmony, came to be endorsed by the Dalai Lama, how her son’s curiosity gave her the idea for the book, and the state park with jungle-like trails her kids love to explore. The first book led to several, and today, she’s a published author and the founder of Eternal Tree Books, an award-winning independent publishing house focusing on Indic Culture with a mission promoting peace, compassion, and tolerance.

Her love of the written word (her father owned a bookstore in India) and encouragement from her mother-in-law inspired Priya to put her ideas into creative stories about Indian culture that felt authentic and appealed to kids in a way they could understand. and had children, she wanted them to know about their culture and her experiences as a child. Priya Kumari, our NJMOMpreneur of the Week, was born and raised in India, surrounded by tea gardens and farms in the foothills of the Himalayas.