The Indian born British-American novelist, Salman Rushdie, was yesterday stabbed on stage in New York, the place he was current for a lecture. The 75-year-old creator was to deal with a big viewers on the subject of inventive freedom when the incident befell.

The creator’s agent stated that Salman Rushdie suffered severed nerves in an arm and injury to his liver, and will lose a watch. “The information just isn’t good,” Andrew Wylie, his agent, wrote in an e mail. “Salman will probably lose one eye; the nerves in his arm have been severed; and his liver was stabbed and broken.”

The world is inhumanely turning into an unsolved puzzle, full of individuals with hate and suppressed anger, offended at any given circumstance. No matter we might deem from this incident, or another, one factor stays irrevocably clear: Artwork is a freedom of expression, and it’s the proper of an artist to create and current their views, their ideas, in a approach that they appear reliable. To devour that piece of artwork, then, turns into non-compulsory. For you, for us, for everybody. Consumption of artwork is a alternative, however creation, a necessity. If we proceed this tradition of nonsensical viewership over inventive freedom, then as a society, we’re certain to doom.

We should all the time keep in mind, with out artwork, we’re nothing. We want Salman Rushdie a speedy restoration, and pray that he’s again to his greatest. Though issues would by no means be the identical for him, there’s nonetheless a hope for resurgence.

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