All consonants are pronounced the way they are in English. Ü is said as u in French (as in "lune"). The E is not silent, it is pronounced as in "bed".
Budgerigars, ceiling fans, the Times of India are all part of the luggage I brought into the world... Blue Jesus leaked into me; and Mary's desperation, and Joseph's revolutionary wildness, and the flightiness of Alice Pereira... all these made me, too.(Midnight's Children)