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He solves a Rubik's Cube within 90 seconds and is working on doing so blindfolded.

He can memorise the sequence of a deck of shuffled playing cards in less than two minutes. And Nishant Kasibhatla says he can teach anyone to do the same.

The 30-year-old Indian 'Grand Master of Memory', who was in town to hold a series of memory training workshops for local business executives and students, says he was once a shy Hyderabad teenager who had trouble remembering people's names.

He and his younger brother Anant were introduced to memory improvement as children when their father came home one day and asked them to test him on the techniques he had studied.

'He had us write down 40 numbers and after a few minutes' study, recited them back to us without looking,' Kasibhatla says. 'We both were amazed.'

The two Kasibhatla boys began studying memory techniques and within a few years were entering competitions.

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