Shadab is the the son of late Sajid Rashid and the editor of literary Urdu Magazine Nayawaraq. After the sudden death of Sajid Rashid at a young age, Shadab Rashid took over the management of Nayawaraq apart from his other responsibilities. Apart from the editor of Nayawaraq, Shadab Rashid's real identity is that of a fiction writer. Shadab Rashid is an important name among the fiction writers who appeared on the fiction scene of Bombay in the last decade. Shadab Rashid's fictions, build a meaningful bridge of communication between the reader and the writer despite the cultural decline, political exploitation, economic and mental chaos of the contemporary era.