EXISTENTIAL ELEMENT IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN.

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is a remarkable success in its mixture of history, myth and autobiography. Steeped in fantasy, the novel pictures the cryptic and multi-layered reality of life in India. Rusdie, undoubtedly, finds his voice in the novel. It is a literary response to a series of a real life-situation masterfully fictionalized through illusions, direct and indirect. It alludes to the political trouble and turmoil of the country in the last quarter of the 20th century. It covers about six decades in the history of Indian sub-continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]