That was a great article. I would agree that India has a long way to go. However my experience also a very personal one -- has been positive. We, my adult daughter with autism and I, visited India a year ago after five years. I saw and experienced a remarkable change in attitudes from our earlier visit. She did not get stared at and nobody asked me 'what is wrong with her?' as they have tended to do in the past. In fact, people were very responsive to her needs. I would also like to point out that, with all India's problems of meeting the basic living needs of several millions, it is remarkable that it has taken only 48 years (since 1947 when the country achieved independence)for the country to pass important pieces of legislation. In the US, it had taken much longer for IDEA to be legislated.