THE $28 FOOT

THE GLOBAL SCOURGE OF LAND MINES LEFT THOUSANDS LIMBLESS, AND THEN TWO GIFTED INDIANS DEVELOPED

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He too is semi-retired. He dresses in a simple white dhoti and lives frugally. "I only need money for the barber and occasionally the tailor," he says, laughing. He rises at 4:30 a.m., milks his cow and prays until breakfast time. Only then does he resume his ongoing effort to improve the Jaipur foot and create new artificial limbs that will be as real and useful as humanly possible.

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