Long way to go!
Take the case of Shanti, a silver medal winner who protected her gender identity. She was stripped of her medals and laurels when she failed gender test in Doha. Unable to work elsewhere as a coach nor find herself a federal job, the medal winner now does hard labour making as much as 4$ a day. Worse part is the constant humiliation that she has been subject too just because of what she is, rather than her achievements.
The situation is not much different for other under privileged groups. The country does not count physically challenged in national census nor keeps track of their unemployment figures. While Western countries are fighting for equal marriage rights, countries like India even fail to recognize them. Only in 2009 was homosexual consensual sex was legalised by overturning the 150 year old law. Judge in his closing statement insisted that - "It cannot be forgotten that discrimination is antithesis of equality and that it is the recognition of equality which will foster the dignity of every individual."
A country that boasts of a civilisation nurtured by harmony for at-least a few thousand years and whose citizens who are smug about the amazing achievements that india was capable of in the past, this is a shame. Is it difficult to embrace such people with love and recognise them for what they have achieved?
Inspired by the TOI article
Update:
Looks like somebody is listening. Also GAIL has announced 1 Lakh INR as a relief fund.