New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- It has been a few weeks since the India Inclusion Summit ended--weeks in which the noise of daily life returned, but the silence inside me deepened. Weeks in which the world slipped back into familiar rhythms, but my own rhythm felt rearranged. In these weeks, I have sat with my sorrow, sifted through my shock, and watched my emotions settle like sediment in still water. And only now--after distance and deliberation--have I understood the gravitas of what those days in Bangalore revealed.

Because the people I met there live lives that are vast, vulnerable, valiant, and victorious--lives so large, so luminous, so layered with bravery that they embarrass our brittle fragilities. They endure challenges we do not even ha...