Osama Siddique
@osamasiddique.bsky.social
Writer. Scholar. Reader. Traveler. Dreamer.
How serendipitous! Merely a few moments after I asked my gardener to get some cornflowers for the garden I came across this page as I went back to my Turgenev.
#turgenev #summer #flowers #gardens #cornflower #russianliterature #novels #reading #asportsmansnotebook #gardening #lahore
#turgenev #summer #flowers #gardens #cornflower #russianliterature #novels #reading #asportsmansnotebook #gardening #lahore
April 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
How serendipitous! Merely a few moments after I asked my gardener to get some cornflowers for the garden I came across this page as I went back to my Turgenev.
#turgenev #summer #flowers #gardens #cornflower #russianliterature #novels #reading #asportsmansnotebook #gardening #lahore
#turgenev #summer #flowers #gardens #cornflower #russianliterature #novels #reading #asportsmansnotebook #gardening #lahore
Bear in mind also, ye wild critics, ye scrapers-up of words harpies who mangle the intentions & inventions of every one, that as children do we only laugh, & as we travel onward laughter sinks down & dies out, like the light of the oil-lit lamp.
Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories
Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories
April 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Bear in mind also, ye wild critics, ye scrapers-up of words harpies who mangle the intentions & inventions of every one, that as children do we only laugh, & as we travel onward laughter sinks down & dies out, like the light of the oil-lit lamp.
Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories
Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories
The Cantos of Hell
Reading Dante Alighieri’s Inferno in the dead of the night
#Dante #thedivinecomedy #Reading #classics #poetry #italianliterature #Lahore #nightreading #SpringBreak
Reading Dante Alighieri’s Inferno in the dead of the night
#Dante #thedivinecomedy #Reading #classics #poetry #italianliterature #Lahore #nightreading #SpringBreak
March 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Cantos of Hell
Reading Dante Alighieri’s Inferno in the dead of the night
#Dante #thedivinecomedy #Reading #classics #poetry #italianliterature #Lahore #nightreading #SpringBreak
Reading Dante Alighieri’s Inferno in the dead of the night
#Dante #thedivinecomedy #Reading #classics #poetry #italianliterature #Lahore #nightreading #SpringBreak
How literature transports us. A spring day dedicated to a book set in the coldest and direst of winters and about the human spirit to withstand the worst of brutalities.
#russianliterature #classics #solzhenitsyn #gulags #lahore #literature #spring #reading.
#russianliterature #classics #solzhenitsyn #gulags #lahore #literature #spring #reading.
March 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
How literature transports us. A spring day dedicated to a book set in the coldest and direst of winters and about the human spirit to withstand the worst of brutalities.
#russianliterature #classics #solzhenitsyn #gulags #lahore #literature #spring #reading.
#russianliterature #classics #solzhenitsyn #gulags #lahore #literature #spring #reading.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
March 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Looking forward to my two sessions in the 13th edition of LLF
The City as a Character
Friday, Feb 21, 2025. 5.45 to 6.45 pm. Hall 1
Viewing Home from Afar
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. 3.00 to 3.55 pm. Hall 3
#llf2025 #LLF #LahoreLiteraryFestival
The City as a Character
Friday, Feb 21, 2025. 5.45 to 6.45 pm. Hall 1
Viewing Home from Afar
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. 3.00 to 3.55 pm. Hall 3
#llf2025 #LLF #LahoreLiteraryFestival
February 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Looking forward to my two sessions in the 13th edition of LLF
The City as a Character
Friday, Feb 21, 2025. 5.45 to 6.45 pm. Hall 1
Viewing Home from Afar
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. 3.00 to 3.55 pm. Hall 3
#llf2025 #LLF #LahoreLiteraryFestival
The City as a Character
Friday, Feb 21, 2025. 5.45 to 6.45 pm. Hall 1
Viewing Home from Afar
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. 3.00 to 3.55 pm. Hall 3
#llf2025 #LLF #LahoreLiteraryFestival
ایک نئی نسل کے قاری کا میرے دونوں ناولوں پہ تبصرہ پڑھ کر خوشی ہوی
#غروبِ_شہر_کا_وقت
#چاند_کو_گل_کریں_تو_ہم_جانیں
#غروبِ_شہر_کا_وقت
#چاند_کو_گل_کریں_تو_ہم_جانیں
February 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
ایک نئی نسل کے قاری کا میرے دونوں ناولوں پہ تبصرہ پڑھ کر خوشی ہوی
#غروبِ_شہر_کا_وقت
#چاند_کو_گل_کریں_تو_ہم_جانیں
#غروبِ_شہر_کا_وقت
#چاند_کو_گل_کریں_تو_ہم_جانیں
I spoke about my novel Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt at Al-Mawrid at their kind invite. A well run research institute adding value to society in various important ways and good to engage with a keen and curious audience.
#ghuroobeshehrkawaqt #غروب_شہر_کا_وقت
#ghuroobeshehrkawaqt #غروب_شہر_کا_وقت
February 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I spoke about my novel Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt at Al-Mawrid at their kind invite. A well run research institute adding value to society in various important ways and good to engage with a keen and curious audience.
#ghuroobeshehrkawaqt #غروب_شہر_کا_وقت
#ghuroobeshehrkawaqt #غروب_شہر_کا_وقت
epidemic. Set in Provence it raises poignant questions about heroism, virtue & unselfishness at a time when all order is disrupted & anarchy reigns supreme. Fear of death, superstition & the very ruthlessness of the disease drive many to lunacy and acts of depravity, & 2/3
February 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
epidemic. Set in Provence it raises poignant questions about heroism, virtue & unselfishness at a time when all order is disrupted & anarchy reigns supreme. Fear of death, superstition & the very ruthlessness of the disease drive many to lunacy and acts of depravity, & 2/3
The Horseman on the Roof is a memorable romantic adventure in the best tradition of the French novel. Its most striking feature are beautiful descriptive passages & the sense of horror & the macabre it brilliantly conveys as it brings to life the ravages of the 1832 cholera 1/3
February 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The Horseman on the Roof is a memorable romantic adventure in the best tradition of the French novel. Its most striking feature are beautiful descriptive passages & the sense of horror & the macabre it brilliantly conveys as it brings to life the ravages of the 1832 cholera 1/3
I received the first stash of the freshly printed Pakistani edition of Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice and it looks gorgeous. Here are the first ten signed copies ready to be couriered tomorrow to those who had ordered in advance and asked them to be inscribed #AnAlienJustice
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I received the first stash of the freshly printed Pakistani edition of Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice and it looks gorgeous. Here are the first ten signed copies ready to be couriered tomorrow to those who had ordered in advance and asked them to be inscribed #AnAlienJustice
February 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And it’s been published. The new and updated Pakistani edition of Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: A Alien Justice. Will be available at Lahore International Book Fair starting on February 5th and in major bookshops soon. And can be ordered directly from Book Corner. 1/2
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And it’s been published. The new and updated Pakistani edition of Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: A Alien Justice. Will be available at Lahore International Book Fair starting on February 5th and in major bookshops soon. And can be ordered directly from Book Corner. 1/2
Folks I shall be at the Lahore International Book Fair on Thursday February 6 from 5-7 pm for sure & may be a bit earlier & later as well. Hope to see you there. All my books including the latest ed of An Alien Justice will be available at Book Corner stall. Hope to see you there
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Folks I shall be at the Lahore International Book Fair on Thursday February 6 from 5-7 pm for sure & may be a bit earlier & later as well. Hope to see you there. All my books including the latest ed of An Alien Justice will be available at Book Corner stall. Hope to see you there
also the best comprehensive critical comparison of my two works that explores aspirations, themes, styles and structural aspects common to both while focusing also on their individual character. Much obliged and of course even more inspired to keep writing. 2/3
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
also the best comprehensive critical comparison of my two works that explores aspirations, themes, styles and structural aspects common to both while focusing also on their individual character. Much obliged and of course even more inspired to keep writing. 2/3
I am quite overwhelmed by this deeply reflective and incisively thoughtful assessment of my novels Snuffing Out the Moon and Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt by Nikhil Kumar sahib that has appeared in the prominent independent Indian digital publication Scroll. This is the first and 1/3
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I am quite overwhelmed by this deeply reflective and incisively thoughtful assessment of my novels Snuffing Out the Moon and Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt by Nikhil Kumar sahib that has appeared in the prominent independent Indian digital publication Scroll. This is the first and 1/3
For many years Tariq Ali has been one of Pakistan’s few globally recognised public intellectuals, an articulate & resounding voice against the banes of #imperialism, #capitalism, #authoritarianism, #apartheid & #Zionism, a champion for peoples’ movements for liberty & 1/3
January 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
For many years Tariq Ali has been one of Pakistan’s few globally recognised public intellectuals, an articulate & resounding voice against the banes of #imperialism, #capitalism, #authoritarianism, #apartheid & #Zionism, a champion for peoples’ movements for liberty & 1/3
Looking forward to this year’s Faiz Festival. It will have a lot to offer. Do join us.
#faizfestival2025
#faizfestival2025
January 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Looking forward to this year’s Faiz Festival. It will have a lot to offer. Do join us.
#faizfestival2025
#faizfestival2025
Very happy to share that I’ve accepted an offer by the Paris based publisher ÉDITIONS BANYAN to publish my novel #GhuroobeShehrKaWaqt in French. It will be translated by Rosine-Alice Vuille who has translated works leading contemporary Urdu writers Khalid Javed & Rehman Abbas.
January 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Very happy to share that I’ve accepted an offer by the Paris based publisher ÉDITIONS BANYAN to publish my novel #GhuroobeShehrKaWaqt in French. It will be translated by Rosine-Alice Vuille who has translated works leading contemporary Urdu writers Khalid Javed & Rehman Abbas.
Wonderful to have a detailed conversation with #TariqAli sahib yesterday where we spoke about his recently released memoirs #YouCan’tPleaseAll & its multifarious themes. This conversation will be shown at the forthcoming #FaizFestival2025 where the book will be launched.
January 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Wonderful to have a detailed conversation with #TariqAli sahib yesterday where we spoke about his recently released memoirs #YouCan’tPleaseAll & its multifarious themes. This conversation will be shown at the forthcoming #FaizFestival2025 where the book will be launched.
Hard to get clearer views with so much light pollution in the cities but a very bright Venus and fairly bright Mars and Jupiter visible in the Lahore night sky
#planetaryalignment
#planetaryalignment
January 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hard to get clearer views with so much light pollution in the cities but a very bright Venus and fairly bright Mars and Jupiter visible in the Lahore night sky
#planetaryalignment
#planetaryalignment
The Museum of Innocence is an ode to obsessive, unrelenting, passionate love - except none of these words quite convey its intensity or perseverance. What best describes such love is the concept & term Ishaq عشق that we find in classical Persian, Urdu, Hindi & Punjabi poetry. 1/4
January 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Museum of Innocence is an ode to obsessive, unrelenting, passionate love - except none of these words quite convey its intensity or perseverance. What best describes such love is the concept & term Ishaq عشق that we find in classical Persian, Urdu, Hindi & Punjabi poetry. 1/4
I’m glad Cambridge University Press extended the permission & that my Pakistani publisher Book Corner is publishing it. Pls book in advance if you are interested. The book will also be present, as will I, at the forthcoming Lahore Book Fair & Faiz Festival #AnAlienJustice
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January 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I’m glad Cambridge University Press extended the permission & that my Pakistani publisher Book Corner is publishing it. Pls book in advance if you are interested. The book will also be present, as will I, at the forthcoming Lahore Book Fair & Faiz Festival #AnAlienJustice
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