SULEMAN AKHTAR: The suicide attack in Lahore’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park posed the cruellest question to me, touching the boundaries of an existential query: what should be the reaction? Shall I write a lament? The question brought me face to face with Theodor Adorno who had famously written shortly after World War II: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” But then what, if not words, is the way out of this sadness which feels to be eternal in Pakistan now? More here.