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...course of India’s development. His hope is that ‘midnight’s children’ will contribute to the nation’s future; however he then has to contend with Shiva, his alter ego... Rushdie’s novel caused controversy because it was regarded as portraying Indira and Sanjay Gandhi unfavourably. It won the Booker Prize in 1981 and went on to scoop the ‘Booker of Bookers’...

...What happened next and walk with Laurie Lee The Secret Life of Books - Find out more about the other books in the series. If you're inspired to try writing some fiction of your own, OpenLearn has plenty of courses, podcasts and advice to turn your ideas into reality. Take your interest further by finding out what it's like to study Creative Writing at the Open University....

...course A222 Exploring philosophy... Philosophy in the real world Nigel Warburton applies philosophical questions to every day life. Thought experiments Thought experiments use hypothetical questions to create philosophical dilemmas. Personal identity Nigel Warburton and Professor Anthony Grayling discuss what defines personal identity. Faith and Reason Is religious belief...

...course A207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830... Analysing European Romanticism A short introduction to this album. Breaking the Enlightenment mould German Romanticism began as a philosophical departure from Enlightenment thinking, centralising human experience and transcendence from the purely rational. This succinct discussion contextualises that shift....