So, tell me something about yourself?" Isn't this one of the toughest, most uncomfortable questions you can be asked? Yet, we often find ourselves at the receiving end of it — during job interviews, on dates and at social gatherings. It forces us to pick a label for ourselves and spend the rest of our lives sticking to it. It makes us wonder, "Who really am I?"

Krishan Jagota is an illusionist, magician and a full-time employee in a design agency. That apart, he has headed the Indian contingent at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, been a yoga instructor for the prisoners of Tihar Jail, and worked in Berlin as part of a student exchange programme. Naturally, he found himself to be a victim of an identity crisis.