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In a city built on ambition and illusion, what happens when the storm finally hits? Nandakumar has it all or so it seems. A prestigious job, a luxury villa, a gleaming car, and a wife waiting at home. But when a single letter shatters his world, the illusion unravels fast. As the economic crisis closes in, so do long-ignored debts, private humiliations, and the weight of everything unsaid.
Around him, others brace for impact: a desperate friend hiding envy behind concern, a business owner watching his empire dissolve grain by grain, and an aging migrant whose quiet wisdom can’t stop the tide. In Dubai, the city of spectacle, the cracks are no longer easy to hide.
Dirham is a deeply human portrait of people clinging to dignity in a place that measures worth in currency and silence. With unflinching honesty and quiet grace, it asks: what remains when everything you built is swept away?
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Shahul Valapattanam
Shahul Valapattanam was born in 1953 in Valapattanam, a small town in Kerala’s Kannur district. He published his first short story at the age of thirteen and has been writing ever since. Over the years, he has authored six novels and seven short story collections, many of which draw from the everyday rhythms, struggles, and quiet beauty of life in Malabar and among Malayalis working abroad.
For the past four decades, he has lived and worked in Dubai, where the lives of migrant Malayalis have been a constant presence in his stories. His writing reflects the emotional worlds of people caught between worlds, carrying home within them while learning to survive far from it.
