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Shiva "of the Knees", Saleem's nemesis, and Parvati, called "Parvati-the-witch," are two of these children with notable gifts and roles in Saleem's story. In particular, those children born closest to the stroke of midnight wield more powerful gifts than the others. Saleem acts as a telepathic conduit, bringing hundreds of geographically disparate children into contact while also attempting to discover the meaning of their gifts. Saleem, using his telepathic powers, assembles a Midnight Children's Conference, reflective of the issues India faced in its early statehood concerning the cultural, linguistic, religious, and political differences faced by a vastly diverse nation. on that date are imbued with special powers. He later discovers that all children born in India between 12 a.m. Saleem is born precisely at midnight, 15 August 1947, therefore, exactly as old as independent India. The first book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to the fall of British Colonial India and the partition. He was born with telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country. Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in 1947 British Raj India and after the partition of India. See also: List of Midnight's Children characters

In 2003 the novel appeared at number 100 on the BBC's The Big Read poll which determined the UK's "best-loved novels" of all time.

It was awarded the " Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 19 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary. Midnight's Children sold over one million copies in the UK alone and won the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events.

Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition.