The pain that R K Raj had undergone in witnessing the living conditions of rag pickers in India has been the main source of inspiration for him to take this work of fiction. Before taking up this work he had been a helpless observer to see a rag picker searching food in the garbage at midnight. He had studied living conditions of the lot of rag pickers around Delhi and meticulously penned down a detail. 30% of the royalty from his books he has planned to dedicate through a trust to be called as ‘Being Responsible’ for the welfare programmes of rag pickers and other poorest of the poor in India. Hailing from Agra, the city of the Taj, R K Raj is an engineer and strategist by academic training. Amateur at Delhi and Mumbai Marathons, he is in telecom industry and presently lives in Vasundhara, Ghaziabad, India.