He is a freelance journalist by profession, yet a magician by life's passion. Anup Kumar Das of Guwahati has been interested in magic for quite some time. Sri Das has performed magic shows on various stages including commercial stage shows, birthdays, promotional shows, trade shows and performed closeup magic. He has even performed magic on Doordarshan Kendra, Guwahati, PPC Northeast and broadcasted a talk on magic on All India Radio, Guwahati. Sri Das ia a member of International Brotherhood of Magicians (USA), Goodwill Magic Club (Lucknow), Academy of Magical Sciences (Thiruvanandapuram) and founder president of The Academy of Magical Arts (Assam) which happens to be the first government registered magic academy in Northeast. In addition, he has published a book Zador Prithibi, under NL Publication and proposed publications like Xomai Xafolya Aru Zeeban (Assam Book Hive) and Zado Xiko Aha (Banlata).
In 2004, at a “Maya Mayam” convention held in Hyderabad, he received the second best National Award on writing on a magic-based topic. The topic was titled “Magic and its Presentation”. Sri Das has been learning magic from Edward Authur Morris of San Francisco who was the past International President of IBM. Currently, he is also learning it from Ted Winkel, a professional magician from Holland.
Sri Das holds a BA degree in English Literature and Post Graduate Diploma in English Language Teaching, both from Guwahati University.
We wish him A Happy Magical Life!
By Satyam Bhuyan, Ames, Iowa
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