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The Possession of a Preoccupied Mind

Hey, how you doin'?  No, I am not rewatching Friends for the zillionth time.  It's just that I hate to start traditionally.  I'm in a conflicting situation: some of my readers like my conversational tone, but apparently it isn't quite acceptable to the publication agencies. Two of my best-appreciated stories were rejected because of their tone. The rejection felt like a jolt that I could practically feel in my head, especially the second one.  Since that day, I've been caught up in a vicious loop of boredom because I stopped writing anything new.   I also called off a new transcription gig that promised me some good money, but the client was a tad bit of a scoundrel in his behaviour.  So here I am, having voluntarily stepped away from both writing and work, and somehow managing to be bored out of my mind. Pretty efficient, ain't I? I'm in that peculiar state where I don't want to do anything to kill time, yet somehow want the time to pass joyfully. I ...

THE STRUCTURE OF MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN BY SALMAN RUSHDIE

 ABOUT THE NOVELIST  Salman Rushdie, born on 19th June 1947, is an Indian born British-American novelist and essayist. He was born into a Kashmiri-Muslim family to Anit Ahmed Rushdie and Negin Bhatt. He was born and educated in Bombay in St. Cathedral until he was fourteen. Soon after that age he left the city of Bombay for England to study at Rugby School. And it was during this time when he tasted the bitter experience of racism with comments such as “Wogs go home” from one of the boys at Rugby. So hurt by the experience that Rushdie never wanted to return to England. However, persuaded by his parents he joined King’s College in Cambridge and returned to England to study for his graduation. After graduation, he worked as a stage actor and also as a copywriter in an advertising firm.  It was also the time when he was giving some serious thoughts of becoming a writer.  As a writer, Rushdie’s work reflects a combination of magical realism with historical fiction...