I saw some posts about Saleem’s status as an unreliable narrator and I think Saleem comes off as such an unreliable narrator because the style in which his story is written seems like stream of consciousness. He is all over the place when he recounts events in his life, and often times makes mistakes when recounting dates and such. He jumps around so many times between different thoughts, sometimes even getting side tracked by things going on in the background such as Padma’s interjections. His stream of conscious style of story telling, mixed with his tendency to be an unreliable narrator makes his makes his version of India feel unique to him.