However, even while Khan says he will make Naseer an excellent street magician, he cannot help but feel sad about the way the boy’s life is shaping up. “This is no life for him. I wish him to be in a school where he can get an education and make something of himself. Magic is a dying art. Nowadays, its all about performing magic from props and devices which anyone can buy in special shops and use them to perform mind boggling tricks. My magic is something for which I need no such devices. It’s all about the art of sleight of hand,” he says even as he hands this reporter an empty cloth bag and seconds later, produces an egg from it.