It is here where a rush of novels Rushdie began to be set. And, in a true Rushdiesque fashion, unable to do so. And for them, London was that “great, rotting, beautiful, snow-white, illuminated city, Mahagonny, Babylon, Alphaville.” Now that old Babylon has become a caricature, desperate to sever its ties to the continent in whose lap the random gods of geography had placed the country in.

While the midnight’s children – of whom Rushdie is a member – have either passed on, or have reached the twilight of their years, so has their world. But most importantly, that Rushdie’s imagination was moored in the twin cities of Bombay and that other city in the west, which Gibreel Farishta, the protagonist of The Satanic Verses had called “proper London, the capital of Vilayet.”īut in the years since, this proverbial capital of Vilayet has changed. The early Rushdie was angrier and radical. Rushdie’s oeuvre can roughly be divided into two parts.

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