Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children...
The book gives a vivid picture of pre and post independent India. It mainly deals with Saleem Senai, the protagonist's family, family tree for 3 generations to be specific.His grandfather; Aadam Aziz is a non-religious yet not atheist, but a true patriot and a non-conservative Muslim doctor. He falls in love with one of his patients, a kashmiri girl Naseem.

The doctor gets involved in pre independent india's political and social activities... Survives Jallianwala-bag massacre, serves the victims of civil disobedience movement, be-friends many political figures and in parallel deals with his own family hassles.

One of his close friends and an important political figure, Mian Abdullah gets assassined and his aid flees and takes shelter in Aadam Aziz’s house. His daughter Mumtaz, second among the five children and supposedly the ugly duckling marries this person Nadir Shah and eventually gets divorced. Then she remarries a business person from Delhi, Ahmed Senai and the protagonist Saleem Senai is his descendant.

The couple set up their new home in Delhi, amongst the remnant of Quit India movement, Partition of India and Pakistan, and tension oozing up between Hindu and Muslims….

[NOTE] This is how far I have read. So I can say here ‘To be Continued…’