blatantly copied from The Hindu :-(
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/23/stories/2005072301420200.htm
" Give me sponsors, and I can make the Taj Mahal disappear", says the young magician.
HUBLI: She flies in the air, makes a car disappear, cuts herself in two, and reduces a five-and-half feet tall man into a boy two-and-half feet tall. She can even drive a car blindfolded and is just 14.
Meet Suhani Shah, who entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest magician when she was seven. She is now mesmerising the residents of Hubli-Dharwad through her magic.
Debut
Ms. Shah's trip along the magic corridor began at the age of seven, when she was studying in the second standard at Mount Carmel School in Ahmedabad.
Her parents arranged for her debut performance at the Thokorbhai Desai Hall in Ahmedabad on October 22, 1997.
"That was the starting point. There has been no looking back after that," she said. She has to her credit more than 4,000 shows in the country and abroad. Ms. Shah aims to make her shows be different from the traditional magic shows.
Apart from performing some 40 illusions on the stage, her shows include sizzling dance numbers performed by professional artistes.
"My show is a three-hour extravaganza packed with entertainment. There are fashion sequences, dances and everything that will keep the audience enraptured. In keeping with the time, I have made the shows more westernised. Even the costumes are different," she said.
And Thursday's show was proof to it.
On Thursday, barring one or two hitches that mostly went unnoticed, Ms. Shah left the audience at the Sawai Gandharva Hall in Deshpande Nagar here spellbound.
Ms. Shah has won several awards. It's no wonder that the All India Magic Association has conferred on her the title of "Jadoopari."
"Give me sponsors and I can make the Taj Mahal disappear," she said confidently. And this teenage magician has pinned her hopes on doing it one day.
