The book reflects the expertise of Salman Rushdie in portraying the reality of the world - its past, present and future. Many significant aspects discussed by the author in his novels like Grimus, Midnight’s Children, Shame, Horoun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury, have been examined in the context of this book. Rushdie’s perceptive knowledge of politics, history, culture, community, race and religion, along with his belongingness to both the East and West, constitute the thrust of his novels and hence the essence of this book. The book shows how history and politics dominate his novels, and various social aspects - community, race, religion and culture - get reflected in the core issues of human society. It encompasses Rushdie’s creative venture that advocates a world without ‘purity’, leading to ‘hybridity’, for a stable and peaceful coexistence of the whole human race. It also mirrors rational and secular mindset of a writer who visualizes a world free from purity, irrationalism, repression, fanaticism and corruption. The book, on the whole, vividly exposes the manipulative, divisive and disruptive forces destabilizing and disintegrating the society, while highlighting the strategies for establishing a kind of world accommodating all, irrespective of their origin, community, race and culture
