Midnights Children, the second novel of Salman Rushdie, was published in 1981. In this epical novel he speaks of many Indians and many versions of reality. High seriousness of the elderly writers, like Raja Rao or R.K. Narayan, is replaced in his fiction by playfulness, comicality and triviality. Midnights Children remains an Indian novel in the sense that the author delves deep into Indian psyche and unearths rich ore of ancient indigenous resources like epic, folklore, oral myth and rituals which till date inform the mind and belief system of the millions in a substantial way.