Shaikh was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Tahira and Yusuf Shaikh, a boiler cleaning contractor. He attended St. Joseph's School, Kurla, Bombay, Siddharth College and G.N.Khalsa College. He started writing at the age of eight and has since written over two hundred poems. The American Library of Poetry had included his poems in their sought after collections of 200 poets chosen from among 2 million poets around the world. He writes in English, Hindi, Urdu and Marathi. His poems have been featured in international publications like Muse India, The Istanbul Literary Review, The Barefoot Review, The Enchanting Verse Literary Review, Emerge Literary Review, Time Vision, Time Mastermind, Kritya Poetry Journal, Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, Shot Glass Journal, etc. In March 2010, he was diagnosed with Blood Cancer(Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) . After a duel of months, he survived the disease. Back to normal life,...