Midnight`s Children

includes index and biblioraphy

The perforated sheet.........3 Mercurochrome .............24 Hit-the -Spittoon.............43 Under the carpet ................63 A public announcement ..............82 Many-headed monsters ..............102 Methworld...............121 Tick, Tock..............142 The fisherman`s Pointing finger.............165 Snake and ladders......187 Accident in a washing-chest ...........206 All india radio............229 Love in Bombay .............249 My tenth birthday .............267 AT the pioneer cafe...........288 Alpha and omega ..........309 The kolynos kid.................330 Commander-sabarmati`s Baton .........350 Revelations .........371 Movements performed by pepperpots..........392 Drainage and the desert.....409 Jamila Singer ...........426 How saleem achieved purity .............454 The buddha ............481 In the sundarbans ...............502 sam and dthe Tiger ..............522 The Shadow of the Mosque .........536 A wedding .............565 Midnight .........589 Abracadabra...............619