Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
His third wife,
from 1997 to 2004, was Elizabeth West; they have a son, Milan (born 1999). In 2004, he
married the Indian American actress and model Padma Lakshmi, the host of the American
reality-television show Top Chef. The marriage ended on 2 July 2007, with Lakshmi
indicating that it was her desire to end the marriage. In 2008 the Bollywood press
romantically linked him to the Indian model Riya Sen, with whom he was otherwise a friend.
In 1999 Rushdie had an operation to correct ptosis, a tendon condition that causes drooping
eyelids and that, according to him, was making it increasingly difficult for him to open his
eyes. "If I hadn't had an operation, in a couple of years from now I wouldn't have been able to
open my eyes at all," he said.
Midnight's Children follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained
its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children
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