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This paper wants to examine Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ in the view of multipositional identities from the theoretic aspect of pos colonialism. Born at the stroke of midnight on august 14/15,1947, Shiva is Saleem’s counterpart. Switched at birth with Saleem, Shiva is misleaded as a son of a poor clown. From his birth, he does not get his original identity and represents the alternative side of India which is poor and aggressive. Postcolonialism focuses on cultural-hybridity which results as multipositional identities. Shiva brought up as a leader of a street gang and possibly a murderer. Later in his young age he becomes a war hero in the battle between Bangladesh and Pakistan. Then he promotes to the rank of major. At the same time he is known as notorious lover among the women of Indian high society. As a result he gives birth to a number of illegitimate children. And at the end he dies nonetheless but a tragic figure. He is damaged and shaped by the forces of history and class. Born as a midnight’s children, Shiva, named after the Hindu god of destruction is captured by the effect of post colonialism and celebrates the multipositional identities.