MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AND MIDWIFE'S CHILDREN
Pic.: Sheela Mohan A unty Cecilia – my mom’s youngest sister – was a Midnight’s Child. Well, unlike the Midnight’s Children, made famous by Salman Rushdie in his novel, my aunt wasn’t born between 12 and 1 am on 15 th August, 1947. She was born at 3… So, she wasn’t blessed with any special powers which Salman Rushdie’s midnight’s children were blessed with! I had called aunty Cecilia. a while ago, to wish her. I asked her if she had heard about ‘midnight’s children’ and their special powers… She hadn’t… My mom, who was 12 when aunty Cecilia was born, remembers, vividly, the event… The euphoria hadn’t spared even this remote village called Karambar… Mom’s house, a mud-and-hay house, lay at the foot of a hill… It was surrounded by thick jungle… Wild animals, including tigers, lived in this jungle… One had to walk miles to get to the road… School, church, shop, doctor… everything was miles afar… Those days, babies were delivered at home and ...