IIT Roorkee students’ video tribute to singer Ed Sheeran goes viral
DEHRADUN:Four engineering students of the IIT Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, have become a rage on the internet, with their music video on singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran’s chartbuster — Shape of You.
The random video has created a history of sorts with over 2.8 million views in just six days after it was posted on YouTube on February 13.
The engineers have broken their stereotype ‘bookworm’ image by their creativity. The video shows four boys trying to impress a girl on Valentine’s Day. The students are associated with the institute’s cinematic section.
Sambhav Jain, one of the quartet in the video, is happy at the success but is not sure whether he and his friends are looking at making music a career option.
“Well, we’ve not really given this a deep thought yet as it has been only a few days now and the response we’ve received has been kind of unexpected for us” Sambhav told HT on Saturday.
The team dedicated the success of the video to their beloved singer Ed Sheeran, whose birthday was on February 17. Meanwhile, social media users praised the students for their creativity. “Everyone here is falling for your creativity in Dy Patil Medical College Pune ..... (sic)” posted Chaitanya Shende for director Ankush Raut from Nagpur. SINGUR: The potato plants are about a foot tall, swaying gently in the breeze. Under the ground, the tubers are ready to be harvested as farmer Mahadeb Das uproots a couple to demonstrate.
While the potato plants cover about 15 acre right beside where the paint shop stood, about 400 metres away, farmers have just sown seeds of boro paddy near the plot once occupied by the Trim Chassis Final (TCF) plant.
Welcome to the former rusty Nano plant in West Bengal’s Singur that has become one of India’s most famous plots after the Supreme Court ordered the land to be returned to the original owners, setting aside the acquisition by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government in 2006. Nowhere else in the country is the flip flop between farming, factory and back to farming so dramatically evident than in this land.
“The yield from the first crops sown in October 2016 — mustard, lentil, khesari pulse and potato — makes us confident of good prospects in farming. The land has retained its fertility,” said Ganesh Ghosh, 55, a resident of Gopalnagar Purbapara.
A walk inside the plot packs in a lot of surprises. Patches near the spots where factory sheds of the Nano plant stood till October last year are now lush green.
Some plots ‘liberated’ from the concrete structures — about a hundred acres — are yet to be turned cultivable. While most of the remains from the concrete structures have been removed, the plots are being filled with soil from a nearby riverbed.
“Nearly 800 acres of land are ready for cultivation and will be covered for irrigation by 56 minideep tubewells that are already installed and a check-dam that is being built on a canal. We will grow the boro paddy on 200 acres this season, besides sesame on 40 acres and split green gram, black lentil and maize on 20 acres each,” said Jayanta Kumar Panrui, the nodal agriculture officer for the Singur project.
In order to build confidence among the landowners about the prospect of farming on the plot, nearly half of which had been