"Midnight's Children and the World of Imagination" by Abraham AbrahamPost-colonial writers like Rushdie use history as a subject for their fiction. Reclaiming history and retaining certain memories are important for the post-colonial condition. In fact, it is very difficult to draw a line of demarcation between reality and imagination. In Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai, the protagonist, claims he is central to India and India's history. But the novel is not merely about his story. Saleem's version of hi(story) comes through his own views which he thinks to be authentic. Rushdie depicts an India that is completely diverse where there is no coherent center. India is multiple, fluid and complex and can only be imagined through fragmented memories and histories. The open-endedness of historical 'truth' is the central issue of the novel where the reader is taken to see a nation that is partly brought into existence through a collective fantasy/ imagination. This paper tries to explore how Rushdie in his landmark work, by blending fiction, politics, magic and memory, has taken the reader to a world of imagination where reality appears to be fiction and vice versa.