I’ve been looking up a few of the Hindu texts and looking through the Hindu creation myths, we come to Shiva. Shiva is one of the three gods in Hindu mythology, the others being Brahma the creator, and Vishnu the preserver while Shiva is considered the destroyer. Shiva in Midnight’s Children is also a war hero and is a parallel to the Hindu mythology as he is effectively the destroyer of the Midnight’s Children. In my mind, the parallel’s are this, Aadam would be the parallel to Brahma as he is the creator of Saleem’s universe, Brahma would parallel Saleem as Saleem effectively brought the Midnight’s Children together into a cohesive group, and Shiva would effectively be the destroyer as he was the end of the group. You could also parallel it to India as in the Hindu myths, the idea of creation, perservation and destruction exist in a continuous cycle.