A Multicultural View of Infidelity, Domestic Violence, State Intervention, and Parenting. Humbling and Humility narrates a triumph of truth, a victory of peace in the midst of turmoil, and a dawn of enlightenment in the darkness of familial and cultural conflict. It is a personal journey of an Indian American father and husband through betrayal, by his partner in life and the mother of his children, his punishment in the grip of an uncaring legal system, his untold suffering, and a growing comprehension of the principal and defining duty of a parent. Through numerous true life events of the present, it explores aspects of eastern and western culture, providing a critical view, from an immigrant father's perspective, of freedom and restraint advocated and practiced. It is a heartfelt call for a return to family and community, and to a true purpose in life. Including detailed accounts of domestic discord, humiliation, and learning, for men attending court-ordered domestic violence intervention classes, this narrative explores the emotional struggles of a father due to infidelity by his partner, and his helplessness as he observes his family disintegrate despite his humility and efforts toward reconciliation. Finding the tools and methods of contemporary society inadequate to his family's needs, he learns to apply his fundamental learning - from culture, from the way of life that guided him in his early years. Discovering pathways of non-violence, tolerance, and accommodation, he applies renewed learning to assist other such families in distress, who find non-litigious and selfless means to resolve differences. Yet, he struggles with confusion and conflict his children undergo in the dislocation of their lives between two disparate cultures. He finds a measure of peace, in the very act of documenting his struggle, and in his comprehension of truth in the journey. Along with numerous mini-stories in domestic violence intervention, Humbling and Humility explores parallels of an immigrant father's predicament with that of other immigrant and non-immigrant families in contemporary American society. Finding commonalities in such parallel incidents and lives, the narrative seeks to explore root causes of such social conflict, and of social ills generally, deriving knowledge and wisdom from disparate cultures immigrants gain from. Integrating values from such ways of life into one's consciousness, a glimpse of a primacy of family, and of one's true purpose in life, is inescapable in stories within. It is thus a complex tapestry of interwoven tales, an inseparable thread of which is enlightenment, of a troubled and resolute human mind, through the crucible of great suffering and joy of life. Spanning many years of an immigrant father's life and learning, and enriched by raw and honest depictions of countless true life events, this narrative aspires to that ancient wisdom from the Mundakopanishad, "Satyameva Jayate," that it is only truth that wins.
