Learning the science behind the Harry Potter magical spell that appeared to work

Jagadeesh Kanna, Founder & CEO of Vaayusastra Aerospace Centre, an IIT Madras-incubated firm, and creator of ‘Science with Young Hanuman’, engages college students in a hands-on science experiment at Higginbothams on Saturday. Also current have been actor Krishnakumar Balasubramanian and Murali DP, Senior Manager. Sridhar Aranala, Vice President, Sales and Distribution, The Hindu. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ

As a bunch of curious youngsters gathered on the primary ground of heritage bookstore Higginbothams on Saturday hoping for a proof of science, creator Jagadeesh Kanna took the centre stage and introduced he would educate them magical spells as a substitute.

While the kids have been musing on what he had simply stated, he made a paper aircraft out of a sheet, and chanted a fictional spell from the Harry Potter collection: Wingardium Leviosa proper. The paper aircraft turned proper; the spell labored. As he urged youngsters to chant the second spell–Wingardium Leviosa left–the paper aircraft turned left. By the top of all of the six spells, awestruck youngsters began realising that spells didn’t work, it was the science of aerodynamics that managed the paper aircraft. And, Mr. Jagadeesh Kanna taught them other ways of the right way to fold the paper to realize exact outcomes in accordance with Bernoulli’s precept.

“The Wright Brothers took seven years to learn to management the airplane. You want the appropriate lecturers. All it wants is ten minutes to be taught pitch, roll and yaw in an plane. It all began with a small dream. It will attain everywhere in the world. You be taught this in class, however not on this perspective,” he stated.

After a couple of minutes of storytelling about younger Hanuman as he taught college students aeronautics, Mr. Jagadeesh Kanna made the kids perceive the science behind the airplane as a part of The Hindu’s meet the creator programme at Higginbothams Mount Road. He pressured the necessity for understanding the issue assertion youngsters wish to clear up, with storytelling as an academic software. He spoke concerning the second of spark nice individuals had skilled and the importance of feelings in studying ideas in science with out becoming bored.

Mr. Jagadeesh Kanna is the creator of The Hindu’s new children guide titled “Science with Young Hanuman”. To maximise consciousness, The Hindu intends to organise in choose colleges a couple of interactive classes with the creator who can also be the founder and CEO of Vaayusastra Aerospace Centre, an IIT Madras’s Incubated Company.

Under the Special Publications Division, The Hindu Group has printed greater than 170 titles since April 2017. These titles have been printed underneath varied genres like Coffee Table Book, Religious, Spiritual, History, Kids, Sports, Science and Premium collection. We have printed 14 titles underneath the Kids Series to this point and Science with Young Hanuman is the most recent one. Link to the guide: https://shorturl.at/xJv7B

Published – August 03, 2025 01:07 am IST

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