Articles by Seema Goswami
11 strange mysteries of life
Yes, I know, I have mentioned these before: Those abiding mysteries of life that keep me awake at night. But you know what, I wasn't quite done. So, here's the next edition of what threatens to become a recurring...
Updated on Mar 18, 2013 10:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Desk v/s couch
As Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer orders her employees back into the office, it’s time to ask if working from home really works. I am writing this column from my living room sofa, my feet perched on the ottoman opposite. In the next room, I can hear the electrician fixing the lights that fused this morning. Delicious cooking smells are wafting from the kitchen.
Updated on Mar 09, 2013 07:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
There are many ways in which we use the words, ‘I am sorry’ in our everyday lives. If David Cameron finds the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ‘deeply shameful’, why stop short of a full apology? Seema Goswami writes...
Updated on Mar 02, 2013 07:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Let’s talk...
Text messages and emails are all very well; but they are no substitute for a real conversation
Updated on Feb 23, 2013 05:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Life is too short
Life is too short. Life can be fragile. It can end in an instant. Live each moment as if it were the last, because it might well be. We hear these phrases so often that it becomes easy to dismiss them as clichés.
Updated on Feb 16, 2013 08:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spring is in the air
Did I happen to mention that winter was my favourite season? Well, dear reader, I lied. As the weather warms up, the nights get balmier, the days longer, I realise – as I do every year, without fail – that my favourite season is, in fact, spring. Seema Goswami writes...
Updated on Feb 09, 2013 07:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
His name is (Shah Rukh) Khan
And he is entitled to have a conversation about what it means to be Muslim in India without having his patriotism questioned. By now I am sure all of you are au fait with the latest controversy to erupt around the Badshah of...
Updated on Feb 02, 2013 06:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Attention, please!
We can no longer just listen to a singer belt out his greatest hits. We are not content to hum along, clap in time, or even dance. In this age of hyper-connectivity, have we lost the ability to live in the moment? Seema Goswami writes...
Updated on Jan 26, 2013 07:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Food you can relish in winters
Truth be told, what I love most about the Indian winter is the gastronomic opportunities it presents. So much so that (and yes, I know it makes me sound pathetic) I often while away hot summer afternoons...
Updated on Jan 19, 2013 06:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Behave!
There’s lots of advice out there for how women should stay safe; Seema Goswami puts down a few handy pointers for men as well. Read on.
Updated on Jan 12, 2013 06:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spectator: Happy New Year
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The time when we chalk up a long list of resolutions, all the stuff that we absolutely must (or must not) do in the spanking New Year that stretches out before us.
Updated on Jan 05, 2013 07:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spectator: zero tolerance
After all, you can take the lout out of the Shiv Sena, but you can’t take the lout out of the man. And in a week when we are all grappling with the rage and sorrow evoked by the brutal gang rape of a young woman...
Updated on Dec 30, 2012 12:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spectator: Ho, Ho, Ho
Sometimes I wonder just how stupid we were as kids to actually believe in Santa Claus. Wasn’t it obvious that the fat Indian man (who looked suspiciously like Uncle Chatterjee from next door) with the fake white beard..
Updated on Dec 22, 2012 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spectator: Aide-Memoirs
Looking through a box of old pictures is sometimes the best way of bringing the past alive. Seema Goswami writes about what happened when she stumbled upon a box of old photographs tucked away at the back of the closet.
Updated on Dec 15, 2012 06:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Men are the new women
They diet and work out to stay in shape; they use anti-ageing products; and yes, they love fashion. Seema Goswami writes about the new-age diet-conscious men.
Updated on Dec 08, 2012 06:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spectator: Déjàvu
Growing up in a pre-satellite television era, my TV viewing was perforce restricted to the stuff that the handful of Indian channels deigned to show. If such American shows as Dallas can be revived successfully, why can’t Hum Log and Buniyaad? Seema Goswami writes...
Updated on Dec 01, 2012 05:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Spectator: Sexism Rules, OK?
It didn’t take very long for the media coverage of the General David Petraeus affair to veer off into the well-trodden realm of misogyny, did it? There was the initial dismay about how another idol turned out to have feet of clay.
Updated on Nov 26, 2012 04:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Sound And Fury
Counting the many, many things I hate about Diwali.
Updated on Nov 17, 2012 03:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Blast From The Past
It is the strangest things that remind you of your childhood, at times, evoking memories that lay long buried in your brain. It could be anything really: an image, a touch, a smell or even a sound.
Updated on Nov 10, 2012 06:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Crime As Punishment
What I have learnt about rape from political leaders across the world.
Updated on Nov 03, 2012 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
The Triumph Of The Older Woman
It’s the season when 30 and 40-pluses are crawling out of the woodwork – and not a moment too soon.
Updated on Oct 27, 2012 05:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Marking The Day
We may well acknowledge the first International Day of the Girl Child in India - but let’s not dare assume that we have the right to celebrate it.
Updated on Oct 20, 2012 05:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Women, Lies, And Weight Loss
As Nigella Lawson shows off her new, slim-line look, it’s time to ask: are full-figured women ever really happy with their bodies?
Updated on Oct 13, 2012 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
How Why What
You know all those abiding mysteries of life that people lie awake and think about? As in: how did the world come into being? Why are we here? What is it all about? Is there such a being as God?
Updated on Oct 12, 2012 08:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
That Madeleine Moment
We all have food memories that take us effortlessly back to the past, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Sep 29, 2012 03:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Urban Tribes
Having lunch with my girlfriends is always an excuse to indulge in our favourite group activity: people watching. Which is, of course, followed by a little gentle bitching about the people being watched. (Now, don’t get all judgemental on me; you know you do that too.)
Updated on Sep 15, 2012 05:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Eat, Play, Love
It’s a nice feeling isn’t it, not to have to worry about getting dressed and heading out to work? To be able to just take your time and enjoy the morning. That’s Seema Goswami's idea of a perfect weekend; what’s yours?
Updated on Sep 08, 2012 05:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Listen to the falling rain...
Yes, there is no sweeter sound than that of the Indian monsoon pouring down. As I sit down to write this, the skies have darkened outside and the rain is pelting down. There is something intrinsically hypnotic about its rhythmic cadence.
Updated on Sep 01, 2012 06:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Have you come a long way, baby?
So, how would you feel about a glamorous, gorgeous Hollywood star with millions in the bank and a steady succession of positively edible eye-candy on the arm?
Updated on Aug 25, 2012 04:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Hear No Evil; See No Evil
It’s a nightmare scenario that every woman replays ever so often in the dark corners of her brain – along with the fevered prayer that it never comes true. But for Pallavi Purkayastha, that nightmare became all too real.... The tragic death of Pallavi Purkayastha is a chilling commentary on urban life today
Updated on Aug 18, 2012 03:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami