India, July 30 -- Jasmina Khanna notes the countless times she has had to be lifted in her wheelchair to find a comfortable spot on a beach or in a garden. "It's a matter of my dignity," said Khanna, who is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy.

And this, she says, is what happens at Five Gardens, a heritage enclave and green haven in the Dadar Parsi Colony. "The ride on the footpath is like a roller-coaster ride for me."

Khanna was speaking while presenting her disability audit on Five Gardens on Tuesday. She was accompanied by Sanket Khadilkar, her physiotherapist and co-founder of the NGO Access to Hope, and other people with other disabilities. As part of the audit, the group did a walkthrough, to assess how disability friendly the...