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Midnight’s Children BY Salman Rushdie HAKINGS They never should have metSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of Indias independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at