May be if Stephen Hawking reads Indian newspapers, he would have been thanking god for not being born in India. With the amount of disability he suffers from, no parent in India would have dreamed of him surviving for such a long time, leave alone the fact of reaching the high position he finds himself now. With the latest controversy on the rights of the Mehta couple having to abort or not, the attention has been focused on millions of similar foetuses which are not in the glare of publicity.

Only if the poor child could hear all the people around him discussing about the number of diseases he could have, he would have chosen suicide rather then coming out of the womb of his mother. The whole discussion has brought back the attention to...

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