S M Shahrukh

S M Shahrukh is a freelance contributor. Read more of him at tracesoforange.wordpress.com

Seasons

As he watched the summer sun burn his skin to a darker shade of brown, he went into a reverie and saw his life like a flashback. The

8y ago

NIGHTMARE

When did these dead people awake from their graves?

8y ago

TWINKLE

She cruised through her grades with tremendous ease and ended up giving the school finals a year earlier than her peers. She was fifteen then.

8y ago

MARCHING HUMANITY

They are walking altogether - dragging their feet

9y ago

Go Set a Watchman

After reading Harper Lee's now famous sequel (or prequel) to Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, I think the first thing one notices is the mass confusion in Scout, now a 26-year old living in New York and coming back to Maycomb to discover and grapple with the bigotry inherent in the people of her hometown barring none,

9y ago

A TRIBUTE

Sadaat Hasan Manto, one of the most prolific short-story writers to emerge from the subcontinent, described the murder of a 'Muslim bastard' during the riots in his most famous short story 'Toba Tek Singh'.

9y ago

Rahman's Conscience

Rahman, a young man on the doorstep of thirty, falls to the ground as the knife plunges deep into his back; piercing his muscles to almost reach his heart but, missing it by a hair's breadth hits his ribs.

9y ago
June 18, 2016
June 18, 2016

Seasons

As he watched the summer sun burn his skin to a darker shade of brown, he went into a reverie and saw his life like a flashback. The

April 23, 2016
April 23, 2016

NIGHTMARE

When did these dead people awake from their graves?

January 30, 2016
January 30, 2016

TWINKLE

She cruised through her grades with tremendous ease and ended up giving the school finals a year earlier than her peers. She was fifteen then.

November 14, 2015
November 14, 2015

MARCHING HUMANITY

They are walking altogether - dragging their feet

August 3, 2015
August 3, 2015

Go Set a Watchman

After reading Harper Lee's now famous sequel (or prequel) to Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, I think the first thing one notices is the mass confusion in Scout, now a 26-year old living in New York and coming back to Maycomb to discover and grapple with the bigotry inherent in the people of her hometown barring none,

April 25, 2015
April 25, 2015

A TRIBUTE

Sadaat Hasan Manto, one of the most prolific short-story writers to emerge from the subcontinent, described the murder of a 'Muslim bastard' during the riots in his most famous short story 'Toba Tek Singh'.

March 7, 2015
March 7, 2015

Rahman's Conscience

Rahman, a young man on the doorstep of thirty, falls to the ground as the knife plunges deep into his back; piercing his muscles to almost reach his heart but, missing it by a hair's breadth hits his ribs.