Internet celebrates as popular physicist, textbook author HC Verma conferred Padma Shri award<\/a>)<\/p>\nShilpa Trivedi captured the serendipitous encounter in a short Instagram video, writing, \u201cRealised midair that we have a legend travelling with us.\u201d She further captioned the clip, \u201cKnowledgeable professor HC Verma Sir… so happy to meet him… simplicity, so much to learn…\u201d The video shows a calm and humble Professor Verma seated on the flight.<\/p>\n
In the same clip, Trivedi shared a photograph with the legendary physicist along with a touching handwritten note he gave her. The note read, \u201cShilpa ji, aapne mujhe itne varsho tak yaad rakha, aapka aabhar hai,\u201d which translates to, \u201cShilpa ji, I\u2019m grateful that you remembered me even after so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Take a look here at the clip:<\/p>\n
Speaking with HT.com, Trivedi confirmed that the video was taken on 1st October 2025 during her flight from Kanpur to Mumbai. Since being posted, the heartwarming clip has garnered over 1.2 million views, with many users expressing admiration and nostalgia.<\/p>\n
Internet showers love<\/p>\n
The video quickly drew an emotional wave of comments. One user fondly remarked, \u201cThe man who made us fall in love with physics \u2014 a childhood icon.\u201d Another wrote, \u201cHe helped me a lot to achieve my dream of getting into IIT Delhi.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several others shared heartfelt messages, calling him a \u201clegendary HC Verma sir\u201d and \u201cthe man who raised an entire generation without even realising what he contributed.\u201d One person commented, \u201cWas solving HCV, thought to take a break, and this is the first reel I saw \u2014 God, I so want to meet him once.\u201d Another user added, \u201cThat note\u2026 it\u2019s so cute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman recently experienced an unforgettable moment midflight when she discovered that the person seated nearby was none…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[123752,123751,123755,123754,123753,123750,199,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-219311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-concept-of-physics","9":"tag-harish-chandra-verma","10":"tag-hc-verma","11":"tag-hc-verma-sir","12":"tag-iit-delhi","13":"tag-kanpur-to-mumbai","14":"tag-physics","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A woman met HC Verma on a flight and shared their sweet exchange online.(Instagram\/shilpatriv1304) <\/p>\n