Osama Siddique
@osamasiddique.bsky.social
Writer. Scholar. Reader. Traveler. Dreamer.
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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
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"Tsundoku" (積ん読) – The fine art of hoarding more books than you could ever read, while maintaining the delusion that, "One day, I’ll get to them."
📚✨ #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime
#writingcommunity #amreading
📚✨ #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime
#writingcommunity #amreading
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March 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Tsundoku" (積ん読) – The fine art of hoarding more books than you could ever read, while maintaining the delusion that, "One day, I’ll get to them."
📚✨ #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime
#writingcommunity #amreading
📚✨ #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime
#writingcommunity #amreading
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
The full interview with Tariq Ali sb at launch of his memoirs at #FaizFestival2025
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#Lahore, #pakistan #progressivepolitics, #imperialism, #capitalism, #Palestine #literature, #leftpolitics, #dictators #liberalpolitics #democracy, #fiction, #Islamophobia
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#Lahore, #pakistan #progressivepolitics, #imperialism, #capitalism, #Palestine #literature, #leftpolitics, #dictators #liberalpolitics #democracy, #fiction, #Islamophobia
Tariq Ali interviewed by Dr. Osama Siddique at launch of You Can’t Please All at Faiz Festival 2025
YouTube video by Osama Siddique
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February 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The full interview with Tariq Ali sb at launch of his memoirs at #FaizFestival2025
youtu.be/Pu1GoaQGMgs?...
#Lahore, #pakistan #progressivepolitics, #imperialism, #capitalism, #Palestine #literature, #leftpolitics, #dictators #liberalpolitics #democracy, #fiction, #Islamophobia
youtu.be/Pu1GoaQGMgs?...
#Lahore, #pakistan #progressivepolitics, #imperialism, #capitalism, #Palestine #literature, #leftpolitics, #dictators #liberalpolitics #democracy, #fiction, #Islamophobia
A Valentine’s 💘 Day special. A love story from a different era and during a very difficult time.
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The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono Kitab Dost کتاب دوست - Book Review No 25. (Feb 8, 2025)
YouTube video by Osama Siddique
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February 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A Valentine’s 💘 Day special. A love story from a different era and during a very difficult time.
youtu.be/wP2ImecrpSg?...
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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
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
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
نوبل انعام یافتہ ناول نگار اورھان پاموک کے مشہور ناول دی میوزیم آف انونسنس پہ میرا تجزیہ اور استنبول میں واقع اس عجائب گھر کا تصویری سفرنامہ۔یہ ناول ایک لازوال عشق کی کہانی بھی ہے اور ایک عظیم شہر سے محبت کی کہانی بھی۔ دیکھ اور سن کے بتائیے کیسا لگا۔
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#kitabdost #osamareads
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#kitabdost #osamareads
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Kitab Dost کتاب دوست - Book Review No 23. (Jan 23, 2025)
YouTube video by Osama Siddique
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January 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
نوبل انعام یافتہ ناول نگار اورھان پاموک کے مشہور ناول دی میوزیم آف انونسنس پہ میرا تجزیہ اور استنبول میں واقع اس عجائب گھر کا تصویری سفرنامہ۔یہ ناول ایک لازوال عشق کی کہانی بھی ہے اور ایک عظیم شہر سے محبت کی کہانی بھی۔ دیکھ اور سن کے بتائیے کیسا لگا۔
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#kitabdost #osamareads
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#kitabdost #osamareads