Magical sojourn for NIT campus

How magicians engineer fabulous effects is being explained by Gopinath Muthukad at the National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode.

Kozhikode: Students and staff members of the National Institute of Technology here found a magical sojourn on 6th of February. Thanks to a Workshop on Magic organised by the Forum for Dance and Dramatics and CAD Centre of the campus in association with the Magic Academy. The workshop was a great success, says Hariram Shankar a participant. Impressive faces of magic and its interesting aspects were unveiled by the Executive Director of the Academy, Gopinath Muthukad and Honorary Director, R. Raja Moorthy.

About 300 students of the NIT, their faculty members and their family attended the 3-hour-long event. The programme began with a video show titled, 'India: Magic of Harmony' a national integration travelogue based on Mr. Muthukad's Vismay Swaraj Yatra of 2007. Magician Muthukad performed a few tricks and he didn't forget to teach how to do some of the tricks. Kept enthralled by this beginning session, the audience was then led to a still captivating second part of the event. It was an interesting lecture cum demonstration by Mr. Moorthy who clearly showed the tricks, technology and science behind magnificent magic tricks. "In total, it was an infotainment show which satisfied all the participants" said Mr. Shankar.

Magical science

This is a humble acknowledgement of an unusually strong presence science has made at the beginning of the New Year. Like a typhoon, waves of science hit the minds of Thiruvananthapuram dwellers from 3rd to 7th of January. Thanks to the 97th National Science Congress that has offered a profound opportunity for paramours of science and seekers of truth, to see the magnificent faces of science that turns the 21st Century. Words of scientific luminaries including the former President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ike an elixir rejuvenated thousands. This writer cannot desist from recalling the ecstasy received while enjoying a blessed occasion of performing magic during the second day of this great event.

The month of January also gave the blissful celestial wonder– the lengthiest solar eclipse of the millennium. On the 15th of January it was such a captivating scene to see our darling Moon coming like a magician in black coat, trying a vanishing act upon the Sun. As this magic progressed up in the sky, summoned by the Kerala State Science and Technology Museum, eight of our child magicians were enthusiastically strolling on the lawns of Kanakakunnu Palace, entertaining a huge crowd of sky gazers.

On 12th of January, the world stood stunned at the catastrophic earthquake that transformed Haiti into a heap of dead bodies. Earthquake is one of the ugly phenomenons demanding scientific studies for precise forecasting so as to safeguard humanity. January beckons science – for learning, entertaining and salvaging humanity. Let us listen to this call.
[Editorial of January 2010 issue of the Vismayam Magical News]

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