Omar Siddiqui

Omar Siddiqui

Omar Siddiqui writes in Urdu and English, sometimes mid-sentence. He wrote “City Lines” between two bus routes in Karachi, on a borrowed guitar with one string tuned down.

शहर की लकीरीं, बस की सड़क

“City lines, bus road.” The Urdu opening sets the scene before the English lines follow.

The number twelve bus

It passes by while the singer remains. “The city moved without me / While I sat still on Karachi streets.”

Discography

• City Lines (2024) — 6 tracks, Urdu-English fusion