in this new world, everyone is blind . they believe the sense of sight to be a lie and that is blasphemous to even talk about it. children are taught from a very young age that sight does not exist. raghurāman befriends ramanagan, a man he saves from death. raghurāman tries to tell them that there is a world of sight and that he can see, but they refuse to believe him and warn him that such talk will get him killed by the king and the elders.