Year: 1960
Place: London, UK

A handsome young boy, all of 18, completes his graduation in Physics at Oxford and gets enrolled into a PhD programme at the Cambridge University.

As a subject, Physics is his first choice for a higher study but he finds the interiors of its content quite dated and boring. He wants many new dimensions of the universe to be added in the curriculum. His eyes see life in every particle of this cosmos and he is stunned by its splendour. Friends, after sensing his extra-terrestrial zest for Physics, start calling him Einstein in a playful way. With an elite academic track and a lot of bosom friends, life is as flowering as it can get for this bright youngster.

His research in Physics continues and so does his carefree lifestyle. A bon vivant by nature, he celebrates his 21st birthday with flying colours and festivity. He treats 21 as a shining milestone in the life of every individual. Having a whale of a time with friends, he dances the whole night to solemnize this important landmark of his life.

This dance was his last.

Just 3 months after the extravagant saturnalia, he falls in the campus of the Cambridge University without any visible reasons. While walking casually with friends, he finds his own body suddenly dumped on the ground – as if a happily flying bird would have fallen on earth. He is rushed to the hospital by friends where he is found to be infected by a very peculiar disease, Motor Neurons Disorder, the complexities of which are not fully understood at the time.

A flamboyant life which had hardly seen a dark spell, abruptly falls into a very dark pit. Seeing the investigation reports of the brain and after conducting some vital tests, the top medical experts at London predict that the young man would not survive to see his 23rd birthday. And what happens in these two years was beyond imagination – even for the hells! Different parts of his body, below his head, start getting paralyzed one after the other. His hands and legs become unmovable. His neck sinks into his shoulders. His vocal chords get crippled and he turns unable to speak.

Out of all the sense organs, only his eyes and ears appear intact. A jubilant and hilarious life which has just crossed 21, suddenly sinks into a wheel chair without any faith in future.

Only difficulties appear to be screaming in his life from here on. But the young man collects himself and fights hard to get back in life again – very hard. He starts fighting every odd, external or internal, with a steely conviction. His decision to continue with the ongoing research in Physics is firmly supported by his family. He starts working on black holes as a research topic – quietly admitting that it is induced by his sudden fall into the black hole of his own life.

Ironclad wills create their path.

With every increase in the sting of difficulties, he goes on increasing his inner fire and remains firm on his research. Leaving the circle of friends and family members stunned, he beats the gloomy forecast of the medical experts at London and – survives!

His professors are speechless on his commitment to studies and research. Sitting in a library with a dense book for hours – reading with a rapt attention – but unable to turn the pages of the book without someone’s help.

The world comes to know this man, for the very first time, after the runaway success of his maiden book, “A brief history of time” in 1988. This book becomes a revolutionary work in Physics. His eureka moment comes when he establishes a direct relation between the quantum theory and the law of gravitation. This is followed by many path breaking inventions by him and almost all big prizes and awards. He becomes the most adorable man in the world of Science. He is invited at several elite universities of the globe to speak on the evolution of this universe.

Unable to address a gathering, he struggles to speak somehow with the help of an artificial speech modulator affixed to a computer – that too with great difficulties. He becomes the Time magazine’s person of the year for several years in a series.

Always surfing high on the current spirits of life, he celebrates his 60th birthday up in the skies – by getting his wheelchair firmly attached to a hot air balloon. Born in 1942 and died in 2018, both at London, he had declared Einstein as his role model in life.

Meet, Stephan Hawking, an outstanding physicist and an epitome of fight – not merely for a life but for what he wanted to extract from this life!

There are many real-life accounts of beating the most severe odds in this world, but the case of Stephan Hawking is rank outstanding. It has no parallel.

It is a rare reflection of what a full size willpower can do – alone!