Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk again, a day after being stabbed several times.
The celebrated author, 75, was attacked while speaking at an event in New York state and was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.
British-American writer Aatish Taseer said, in a since-deleted tweet, that the 75-year-old was "off the ventilator and talking (and joking).
