Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez (2024) Netflix miniseries I learned a new word today: parricide. It is the act of killing one's parents, sometimes as a universal term to include murdering relatives. It is not peculiar to our modern times by no stretch of the imagination. All through human civilisation, children have been killing the hands that fed them, directly or indirectly. Ancient Indian scriptures have numerous accounts of patricide. The Greeks, Babylonians and the Norse were not far behind. Even though the Mughal emperors had to kill to grasp the throne, the most they did was kill their siblings, like how Aurangzeb, the militarily savvy son of Shah Jahan, is said to have masterminded the brutal killing of his brother, Dara Shukoh, the tolerant one liked by the subjects. Aurangzeb did not kill Shah Jahan. He merely dethroned him and kept him in prison till he died. King Asoka, who advocated the Middle Path of Buddhism, did not follow the path of passivity. He had to kill ...
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