Salman Rushdie: Losing an eye upsets me every day

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To play this video, you need JavaScript enabled in your browser. < /figure>By Alan Yentob and Noor NanjiBBC

Sir Salman Rushdie spoke in chilling detail to the BBC about what he remembers about the attack ago two years, during which he was stabbed. scene.

The Booker Prize-winning author said his eye hung in his face "like a boiled egg", and that losing the "I remember thinking I was dying," he said. "Luckily, I was wrong."

Sir Salman said he was using his new book, Knife, as a way to fight back against what has passed.

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Sir Salman, who was born to non-practicing Muslim parents and is an atheist, has long been a staunch defender of free speech.

But he warned that it has become "much more difficult."

"Many people, including many young people, I'm sorry to say say, are of the opinion that restrictions on freedom of expression are often a good idea," he said.

"When of course the whole point of free speech is that you have to allow speech you disagree with ."