‘Waking Up With Kolkata’- New Aerial Video by Kolkata Scientist Has Gone Viral

A video titled ‘Waking up with Kolkata’- an aerial video made accidentally by a Kolkata scientist became viral when he came to visit his hometown this month. Dr. Sandip De, a Kolkata- born scientist working on the next generation machine learning algorithms for materials discovery at Switzerland's research university - The Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne claims himself a self-taught photographer now experimenting with his camera capturing aerial videos.

‘Waking up with Kolkata’ has gone viral within days of it being uploaded on Youtube. People who have watched it on his Facebook page and website insist that Kolkata's monuments - Victoria Memorial, Shaheed Minar, Howrah Bridge and the Vidyasagar Setu - have never looked so beautiful before. De clarified to sources that it took him only half an hour to make the three-minute long video of Kolkata. Viewers as well as Dr. De had said us that Kolkata got a magical view with the video, with fog adding to it more thrill.

When asked about his personal favorite among the monuments, De said that all of them had overpowered another. Saheed Minar, with its symmetry and octagonal geometric design at the base of the Minar added a special charm. De said that each and every photographer from and in Kolkata has a unique photo of their own as a signature mark. “It was not possible before” added the young scientist from Kolkata, to look at Kolkata like this.