It is often said that if you have a strong attachment to something or pursue a path single- mindely, you will certainely get it or succeed. It is true in the case of Jadugar Anand, the world famous magician known for his speedy tricks and proud winner of three international records. Anand says magic is a pleasing and amazing art and an exhibition of practised skills, where the laws of nature are seemingly set aside for innocent entertainment. But he maintains that his magic is no hypnotism as group hypnotism or mass hypnotism is not possible. He enlightens that it is only an illusion created to cheat your eyes an in illlusion it is the eye which see a thing and conveys the message to the brain whereas in hypnotism it is the brain which dictates the eyes to see it in the way it interprets. Anand uses hypnotism only when he calls a teenage girl or a boy or a child on stage to perform a trick on her/him. Having perfromed magic shows on over 26,000 stages across 36 countries, Anand, in a soft tone, remembers his days when his parents almost killed him for showing interest in magic and for deciding to take it as a profession. But Anand's love for the profession was so profound that he started practising magic watching jugglers on the road-side and reading books related to
