Ashok Nanda is the founder secretary of Vikash, a nonprofit organisation working in Eastern India. He has three decades of experience in working with leprosy-affected persons and disabled people towards their rehabilitation in the community. He believes that disability is a technical limitation of science and most people can become able if the community arranges for appropriate technological support. He has planned and designed the community-based rehabilitation project of Vikash. He has also designed the frame of the book.