Nida Farid
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Happy New Year! I honestly don’t know what to say for New Year’s. I fulfilled one of my biggest dreams (to publish my first novel) in 2025. I also got to visit 3 new countries in 2025. Yet 2025 has still felt like a hard year. I think it has for many people across the
Please stop telling boys that “Men Don’t Cry”. When you tell boys that it is not OK to cry, you are instead making them suppress their pain. You are encouraging the rhetoric, even if you don’t use the words, that it is OK for Men to get angry, but is not OK for them to
What if we stopped doing good in the world? What if we instead focused on doing no harm? As I have seen more and more of the world, the truer the old adage “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” has turned out to be. I realize now that many people do as
Love does not teach to hate. Learn the difference. If you hate another country to prove your love for yours, you are not patriotic, you are a nationalist. And that is as bad as some other “ist” words like facist, racist, etc. Patriotism is doing good for your country and fellow citizens out of love
The trawler rumbles across the grey tidal flats, bringing back a group of people and picking up new passengers to take a kilometre out where there are better pickings of shellfish. The passengers getting off all have full bags. Hmm, I wonder what they found? Clams, oysters, conches, crabs, mussels, scallops? They are going to
Today, I am excited to introduce you to the main characters of my book, “The Extraordinary Life of Riz”. You may have noticed them on the book cover, too. The illustrations are by my sister, Sama N. Izhar, who is an animator in her day job, and has worked on countless animated movies and TV
Today I am very excited to reveal the final book cover for “The Extraordinary Life of Riz.” You may have already seen this in some of my social media posts. But if not, I wanted to inform you of the progress in this blog, as well. Thank you to all of you who voted in
When I lived in the US, everything was “awesome” and “amazing” and “perfect” and “mind-blowing” and “incredible”. Or it was “awful”, “horrendous”, “criminal”, “terrible”, etc. “It’s fine” meant that one didn’t really like something. Even saying “it’s good” meant it wasn’t good enough for one’s standards. It took a stint in Europe to start tempering
The car rolled over the hill, and a hundred shades of green unfolded before her. Her heart and breath stopped. Every part of her body was focused on the view before her. The valley below could be called agricultural land by those without a heart. But there would be very few who could remain unaffected
A regular dose of awe is good for our mental health, according to experts. Being in nature has always been known to have therapeutic effects, but awe has a separate therapeutic effect from nature itself. It may be because of the humbling effect of awe. We suddenly realize how tiny we are compared to the
