Spotted! Stephen Hawking in a Pheran

By MUBASHIR BUKHARI

Not only local populace and models can been seen wearing Kashmiri’s traditional cloak-Pheran but even the living legend Stephen Hawking was spotted wearing it.
Professor Hawking - who is known for his good humour as well as his fearsome intelligence - was attending the ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London to present a BAFTA award to Eddie Redmayne who played Hawking in his biographical romantic drama film The Theory of Everything.
During the function Professor Hawking who was accompanied by many Hollywood stars stand out by wearing Kashmir’s Pheran. Though Pheran has catched the eyeballs of many stars and politicians in the past but Hawking’s wearing Kashmiri cloak at a big function will further popularize the Kashmir’s tradition at International arena.
Stephen Hawking who suffers from motor neurone disease, is so paralyzed by the illness that he can speak only with the aid of a computer was seen wearing grey colour long Cloak popularly known as Kashmir Pheran at the function.
Pheran has already went global with people especially in United Kingdom and other European countries wearing it.It is worth to mention that many national e-commerce online shopping website like Amazon.com , Kaboodle.com, ebay.in and exoticindiaart.com  have played an important role in making this cloak global.
Similarly looking into the popularity of the 'Pheran', many local e-commerce shopping websites have emerged in valley which are shipping this ethnic dress worldwide.
 Pheran is a loose cloak worn in winters to keep warm but the garment has recently become a fashion statement and has flooded many e-commerce sites.
Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; his book A Brief History of Time stayed on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.

 Recently, a movie with a name The Theory of Everything was made on Stephen Hawking’s romantic life from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron disease, and his success in physics.

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