Salman Rushdie 'lucky' to be alive after 'colossal' attack

In August 2022, the Midnight's Children author was stabbed in the right side of his neck and face, his left hand, and his abdomen by a man who rushed onto the stage as he was about to start a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. He spent six weeks in hospital and subsequently lost vision in one eye, while the feeling in some of his fingertips hasn't returned. Opening up about his recovery in an interview with The New Yorker, the 75-year-old said…