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Inquilab Zindabad (“long live revolution”) — the chant that Bhagat Singh popularised during his arrest — should, if we are to stand for progress, reverberate eternally not only in society but in our minds and thoughts as well. Singh’s atheism — the rejection of ultimate authority and transcendent truth — is necessary in any revolutionary thought.

This kind of rhetoric drives much of how the media construes and facilitates discussions surrounding disability; when such rhetoric is employed, one only has to imagine the damage this can inflict upon people who identify as being disabled.