Controversial author Salman Rushdie returns to India on its 40th anniversary to explore various aspects of his homeland's culture in the U.S. television premiere of The Riddle of Midnight.Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western worlds.Source: Wikipedia
