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Stephen called upon all the disabled people to give wholehearted attention only to what they were capable of doing. They should not copy normal people. Olympic games organized for the disabled were a waste of time.

Both are disabled. Both are confined to wheelchair. Both have decided to live. creatively.

Meeting another disabled person who has achieved something big, makes the disabled person feel stronger and more inspired to do better.

People generally ask the disabled to be brave. Stephen Hawking truthfully admitted that he hadn't been brave. In fact, he had no choice.

Kanga phoned Stephen Hawking's house from a phone booth. There he talked with Stephen Hawking's assistant and requested him to arrange a meeting with Stephen Hawking Luckily he was allowed half an hour for the interview.

Firdaus Kanga- a writer and journalist - had come in a wheelchair from India in order to write about his travels in Britain. On the suggestion of his guide, Kanga planned to meet the most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist. Stephen Hawking in Cambridge.

Stephen Hawking was a great scientist, an astrophysicist. But he was disabled - completely paralysed, confined to a wheelchair. He wrote the book A Brief History of Time. He could express himself only through a computer.