Today Jasmine Pavri of the J R D Tata Trust came to visit us. It was her first trip to the Foundation and she was eager to see all of our projects for herself, having heard about them for several years.

Each of us reported on our own activities and Jasmine was visibly impressed with the range and the scope of what has been done. I always love hearing everyone describe their work – they are all so unassuming and low key about their accomplishments and hard work and today was no exception.

I was particularly proud to hear Anjali explain the link between awareness and advocacy and the importance of using the law to achieve our goal of full inclusion for people with disability. It’s so true, and is so often forgotten in our efforts to make people understand what we are trying to do.

At some point, we have to ensure that people cannot discriminate, not because they are good citizens, not because they want to do the right thing, but because it’s the law. Young people like Anjali seem to understand this instinctively. She, and so many like her, has a passion for justice and a belief that the law can be used for good even when people don’t want to be good.

I, on the other hand, (is it my age?) want people to believe in the truth of what we say, to change from the inside. I cling to the idea that attitudes must be transformed for any real revolution to occur. It’s the young, like Anjali, who are more practical, who understand that sometimes you have to act as if it’s true whether you accept it or not, because it’s the law – and that one fine day, you wake up and find that a whole generation has grown up never knowing it could be any other way. Viva la revolution!