Stephen Hawking, a great scientist.

Stephen William Hawking ,a brilliant scientist ,a discoverer,a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and one who unearths many mysteries of the universe  passed away, in the early hours of Wednesday, at the age of 76.
             Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 8 Jan 1942.He did his schooling from St. Albans school ,Hertfordshire and university education from university college, Oxford. He earned his master's and PhD at Cambridge university.
          At the age of 21 he was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and was told that he had just a year to two to live but he lived for longer period. But the disease left him in a wheelchair and unable to speak .The disease made him fully dependent on others. With the help of speech synthesizer he used to speak in a computerized voice.
         

He was mainly associated with theoretical physics that explains and predict natural phenomena using mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects. He was author of many books related to universe and our existence. Some of his popular books are ,A Brief History of Time, The grand Design, The universe in a Nutshell, My Brief History, The theory of Everything and many more.
      He was famous for his work with blackholes and relativity. He discovered that blackholes  were not black and emit radiations and gradually evaporate and disappear. He used the word ' Hawking radiation' in 1974.He had at least 12 honorary degrees and was awarded Presidential  Medal of Freedom, Copley Medal, Albert Einstein Medal, Wolf Prize in physics and many more.

A tribute to Sridevi.

Sometimes an unbelievable thing happens to which the mind tries to understand but the heart doesn't. The sudden and untimely death of Sridevi in Dubai is one such example. The legendery actress who ruled the hearts in 80's and 90's shocked and saddened the fans and admirers all over the world.
     The beauty who started her career at the age of just four made her debut in Tamil film 'Kandan karunai'.In 1967, she worked with the top actress of that era 'Jaylalita'.In 1972 she worked as a child artist in Hindi movie 'Rani Mera Naam' and the turning point in her career came with the Hindi film'Solva Sawan'.In 1975,she also worked in the Hindi film 'Juli'.
     She worked with many superstars like Rajnikant,Amitabh Bachchan,Kamal Hasan.She has done 27 films with Kamal Hasan.Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi have jointly worked in 6 movies. Some of them are Bombay Talkies, English Vinglish,Khuda Gawah,Aakhree Raasta,Inquilaab etc.The movies she has done  with Rajnikant is  22.They are Farishtay, Chaalbaaz, Bhagwan Dada and many Telugu and Tamil films.With Jitendra she jointly did 16 films of which Himmatwala, Ghar Sansar, Tohfa,Jaani Dost are more popular.Rishi kapoor and Sridevi also gave popular films but very few in number ,only five ,they are Kaun Sachcha Kaun Jhootha,Gurudev,Banjaran, Chandni(1989), Nagina(1986).The film Chandni was one of the biggest hits at that time.Her superhit films are Mr.India,Judai,Chandni,Chalbaaz and Khuda Gawah.She was one of the biggest female superstars who ruled countless hearts .
  She won five Filmfare Awards and in the year 2013 she was also awarded with Padma Shri.She also bagged 'Order of Afghanistan ' in 1991 for the movie Khuda Gawah.
True,she is no more but her work always reminiscences of her extraordinary qualities that none possesses.