Balancing the magic act..
BHUMIKA K. for The Hindu.. Magicians pull rabbits out of hats. And 16-year-old Tejaswi Ananth wears many hats — juggler, shadow-play artist, unicyclist, balancing freak…
At nine, when you say a kid is juggling a lot of things, you assume he’s busy with school and after-school activities, playing, cricket camp or some such. But when Tejaswi Ananth turned nine, he started juggling — with silk handkerchiefs, balls, then clubs, and now at 16 he’s graduated to steel daggers. And he does it when he’s hula-hooping. All this while he’s balancing on a rolla bolla!
It helps to have a hobby magician for a father. And Anantha Padmanabha has designed their whole house, far beyond Electronics City, to cater to the young boy’s talents. “While building this house, my father had installed a spotlight. When I asked him what it was, he introduced me to shadow play,” says Tejaswi.