Unit - 7 : A Visit to Cambridge — English STD 8 — Question

Both Stephen Hawking and Firdaus Kanga. Eire disabled. Firdaus Kanga is a writer and journalist. He lives and works in Mumbai. He was born with ‘brittle bones’ that tended to break easily. He has been confined to a wheelchair since then.

Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientists of our time. He suffered from a form of paralysis that confined him to a wheelchair, and allotted him to ‘speak’ only by punching buttons on a computer, which spoke for him in a machine-like voice.