Midnight’s Children is a turning point for Indian English novel writing. This novel brought Indian English novel a world recognition in an unprecedented way. No other novel by an Indian novelist has had such an impact as this novel. It also made Rushdie, at the very young age, into a major literary figure. His exuberant humor, brilliant wit, imaginative boldness, enormous talent and prodigious powers of storytelling became a part of the vocabulary of critical acclaim that greeted Midnight’s Children. The success of this novel led to a flood of novels by Indian English novelists and, like this novel, they too won numerous national and international awards. This novel has all the characteristics of ‘defamiliarization’. It conveys familiar through the unfamiliar. It defies comprehension. It has innovated daringly. Its highly imaginative quality, its unconventional word-play, the disarranged syntax and spirited metaphors, its stunning fusion of oral narrative, fiction and non-fiction, history, journalism, realism, Hindi film songs, fantasy, and the stream-of-conscious narrative style make it, certainly, not an easy book to read.