India, May 12 -- Not long ago, I was speaking to a friend about how, as a blind person, even something as simple as going to the park for an evening walk feels like a privilege. The absence of tactile paths, human assistance, and basic accessibility features turns a park-a symbol of leisure for many-into a space of exclusion. My friend, who is able-bodied, responded with genuine surprise: "I didn't even think that could be a problem." That remark, though innocent, points to something deeper. It reveals a structural ignorance embedded in our social consciousness-an erasure that extends beyond conversation into policy, technology, and institutions. This erasure was recently exposed in Pragya Prasun v. Union of India, where two petitioners-a...