Author Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai, and in one of his most popular books, ‘Midnight’s Children’, the city plays an important part. 
‘Midnight’s Children’ won the 1981 Booker Prize. It was also awarded the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and The Best of the Booker in 2008, on the 25th and on the 40th anniversary of the prize respectively. 

Now that the book itself completed 40 years, and to mark the occasion, Rushdie tweeted a photo of himself and wrote: “Midnight’s Children was published 40 years ago this week. Here’s a picture of me, in a daze, making some sort of speech after winning the Booker Prize later that year. (Sorry about the cigarette.)”.