Following India’s glittering performance at the 2016 Paralympics (when disabled athletes won four medals, including two golds – our best since 1968), one could be fooled into thinking that Indians had finally begun to see the disabled as actual people. After all, if the success of Dangal and the Phogat sisters could convince Rohtak to celebrate its daughters, then surely, the triumphs of Deepa Malik and Devendra Jhajharia should be enough to shake Indians of their contempt and pity for the disabled. But nearly a month after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2016, was passed in the Lok Sabha and made into an Act, disabled people continue to fight lonely and uphill battles for dignity.

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