Hawking couldn't see the Taj as it wasn't disabled-friendly
During his 2001 India visit, physicist Stephen Hawking had wanted to visit Agra's Taj Mahal but could not after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) dismissed requests for modifications to make it disabled-friendly. The ASI decided to make 50 historical monuments including the Taj Mahal disabled-friendly in 2016. Hawking died aged 76 at his home in the UK on Wednesday. 