The present paper entitled as “Orhan Pamuk and the Orient-Occident dichotomy” is an attempt to state that despite the contemporary world has undergone the transition from one stage to another, i.e., from an agricultural world to the global village, yet the centuries old collision between the two entities: East and West has not ended. The dichotomy between the Orient and Occident is still prevalent in the contemporary world in one or the other form. The West is still viewed as an epitome of rationality, modernity, materialism, democracy and so on and the East as quintessence of religion, spirituality, tradition, nature, superstitions and the like. To be precise, despite globalization, economic growth, and scientific developments in Asia, the West is still regarded as a superior entity to East. It is pertinent to state here that the collision between the two entities may not be visible everywhere but its traces by and large are still palpable in large metropolitan cities and even distant regions of the world. For example, Orhan Pamuk in his much acclaimed work-Snow shows us the footprints of Orient-Occident collision in a distant and forbidden region of Turkey called Kars.