Honi Soit
WEEK 6, SEM. 1, 2019
FIRST PRINTED 1929
9: INVESTIGATION
12-13: FEATURE
A house, a perk and a million Colonialism and the theft of Indian street magic dollar student organisation On the Western half of the Camperdown campus, tucked away from student throngs on Eastern Avenue, there is a 90-year old cottage with an unassuming red brick veneer. It sits at the top of Grose Farm Lane, a pedestrian walkway from Western Avenue to the Charles Perkins Centre. Nestled in the trees, The Cottage has a vantage of the University Oval and on cosy afternoons,
sunlight filters down the lane onto its two-metre-high, black aluminium fencing. For the past 22 years, The Cottage has been home to Bruce Ross. Between 1991 and 2017, Ross served as the President of Sydney University Sport and Fitness (SUSF).
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Magicians make the impossible possible. They have the ability to mesmerise audiences all around the world. They test the boundaries of what we think we know, through the spectacle of grand illusion. Exploiting this spectacle, magicians like Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston were able to draw in an enormous fan base, turning themselves into household names. Unfortunately, their entranced
fans seemed to forget the thousands of humble Indians who invented the very tricks for which their Western counterparts were enjoying fame. The cultural roots of magic in India span across millennia.
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