My name is Pradip – Pradip Purtej Singh – though that is not really relevant. I am handicapped (not disabled!) since the age of four, but have had a full professional life. Though I conceived this site, it is a product of the inputs of many, persons mentioned here as well as others who influenced it in one form or another.

All the persons behind this site, who joined me to support and help get it going, are all aware of the advantages that allow us to be functioning members of society. Apart from birth and nurturing, education and environment, another key secret to success is information: Information that empowers by making us aware of options available in life, in courses of study and avenues of employment, in social development and for emotional stability – and telling us what rights we enjoy as citizens of a sovereign nation. More important than having options, rights and systems of redressal is to be aware of all these to be prepared for life. Whether one is handicapped or non-disabled in the conventional sense. This is our conviction and this our purpose …

Thanks, in alphabetical order to:

Akanksha Pundir, whose special inputs and support in critical analysis and suggestions for improvement inspire and motivate …

Holly Faraday, assisting in the editorial content, with love and support that is constant, if distant ...

Katherine Hunt, responsible for Networking and many other activities, including moral support in abundance ...

Namrata Bhansali – and her company Ubitech Solutions, Gwalior – for her immense support in many ways, specifically for the immense amount of work she and her team did to polish, beautify and professionalize this Website. I am forever grateful to her and her husband Raju and the team for the effortless ease, understanding and good humour with which they met all my demands, reasonable and unreasonable.

Ranjan Joshi, Management and IT expert with a rich experience that spans continents providing advice and inputs with his son, Anshul, to make the site friendly as well as useful …

Rahul Ganguly, who gave us all the basic information about disability in India.

Sue Stubbs (Sue Kali) who gives us encouragement, advice and support.

Vandana Bedi, Therapist and Rehabilitator with a vast experience in training and research and rehabilitation administration.

We believe that when knowledge is power, information is empowering.  India, on paper, is the best of all possible countries – if only we knew enough to insist that all the provisions and laws be enforced!
Who can be the modern day Prometheus, empowering humans who still await the liberation that knowledge gives?

All of us, actually!
EMPOWERMENT BY ALL, FOR ALL!

We can only hope to succeed with the help of friends and like-minded people from all over the world. We need your support and partnering.