New Delhi, May 15 -- All of last week, 31-year-old Amrit Khurana tried to tune into family conversations about the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack. A non-verbal autistic person based in Noida, she could follow the discussions to a limited extent. "She could not chip in but would ask limited questions. A lot of our family members are in the defence services, and we would talk about them. She would ask in short sentences about their whereabouts," says her mother Aarti. "I was not sure how to explain all of this to her."

Like the rest of the country, Noida underwent blackout simulations and evacuation drills. However, there was very little information about making these drills inclusive fo...