Bhopal, June 15 -- As Bhopal celebrates Father's Day, bakeries frost cakes, children queue outside gift shops, and social media floods with tributes. Ties, pens and keychains are wrapped with care. Restaurants prepare "Father's Day Special" tables. Love and reverence hang in the summer air - at least outwardly.
But for some families, the day brings no celebration. Just silence. Grief. Unresolved rage. In homes torn by addiction, violence or mental illness, the loving father figure is not absent - he is feared. And in rare, horrific cases, he is the killer. Or the victim.
In recent years, deeply disturbing incidents have emerged across Madhya Pradesh and beyond - cases where fathers murdered their children, or children turned on abusive fa...