s identity from changing. To Saleem there is no
             fundamental doubt in the unreliable nature of his story, the only reality for man is the
             one imitated from his recollection from his memory "Memory's truth....It selects,
             eliminates, exaggerates...but in the end it creates its own reality" . This is similar to
             the construction of his identity where he has selected certain aspects of it and tried to
             deny the parts that he doesn't like.
             'The struggle of man against power,'...... 'is the struggle of memory against forgetting.' Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. And the novel is one way of denying the official, politicians' version of truth" . Rushdie is trying to voice his opinions and his experiences as being the voice of all the individu
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