Education & Training

The educator behind the entertainer.

He was a teacher of competitive-exam candidates before he was a stage performer. The two careers are one story.

The first academy

Twelve students, and a freeze.

He started a coaching institute to prepare students for the MPSC examinations. Within two to three years, twelve of his students cleared the State Civil Services examination. In 1989 a recruitment freeze in Maharashtra ended fresh government hiring, and the academy was closed.

Late 1980s. Credit: Family archive.

Magic as a learning tool

Engaging, memorable, transformational.

Parents and teachers are often our greatest inspirations, yet sometimes, knowingly or unknowingly, they plant beliefs that limit a child's confidence.

That sentence is from his biography, and it explains his method: he trains children, parents, trainers and organisations to remove invisible psychological barriers. Magic is how he gets the room's attention; the lesson is what he does with it.

He integrated magic into corporate training after attending seminars by leading Indian and international trainers, and by listening to how organisations talked about targets, budgets and teams.

The mission ahead

Four groups he wants to help.

  • Children

    build confidence

  • Parents

    guide the next generation

  • Trainers

    become powerful communicators

  • Organisations

    inspire their people

From his profile

Reach and a founding.

  • 60,000+individuals trained in memory and mind powerAs stated in his profileAnother public profile gives a lower figure; the figure is being reconciled.
  • FirstFounder of Maharashtra's First Magic AcademyAs stated in his profileFounding year and records to be added.

A magic moment · 09

The Missing Digit

Hide a digit. I will recover it.

How to play

  1. Write any number with at least 4 digits.
  2. Scramble its digits into a new number and subtract the smaller from the larger.
  3. Circle any one digit of the answer that is not zero.
  4. Type the other digits, in order, below.
How does it work?

A number and any scramble of it leave the same remainder when divided by 9, so their difference is a multiple of 9, and the digits of a multiple of 9 add to a multiple of 9. The missing digit is whatever completes that sum.

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