Articles by Seema Goswami
Do you enjoy birthday parties?
To be honest, this whole birthday party shebang is quite foreign to me. I grew up in a traditional Brahmin household where your birthdays were marked by a cold bath in the morning, followed by a puja and then...
Updated on Oct 30, 2010 07:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Heroes or the villains?
Why do we expect our heroes to be epitomes of all-round perfection? From Nelson to Gandhi, from Churchill to Kennedy no leader was perfect but they were leaders nevertheless.
Updated on Oct 23, 2010 08:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Books: The Old Friends
Yes, that’s what books are to Seema Goswami who takes offence at books being given away. Read on to know how she deals with people sharing books.
Updated on Oct 16, 2010 06:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Taking back the Internet from loonies
Internet has been taken over by the kind of loonies who used to spend all their time writing angry, misspelt letters to the editor in a more old-fashioned age, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Oct 10, 2010 01:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
The best time of your life
Which decade would you vote for: your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s or even your 60s or 70s?
Updated on Oct 02, 2010 04:04 PM IST
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Family matters
We may rave and rant about dynasty in politics: but we think nothing of building up our own.
Updated on Sep 25, 2010 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Bombarded with pointless research?
The results of truly pointless research are all around us, in case you care to look. The following, for instance, is what a cursory search on the Internet revealed, when I typed ‘pointless research’.
Updated on Sep 18, 2010 05:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Is privacy dead?
...or is it just in terminal decline, waiting for a miracle that would bring it back to life? And do you think that miracle will come about in our time?
Updated on Sep 11, 2010 04:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Why people betray
How do you think the average Pakistani cricket fan reacted when news of the latest scandal to hit their cricket team broke? To feel a sense of betrayal, you need to have had a feeling of trust to begin with.
Updated on Sep 07, 2010 11:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
The ugly truth
The truth is that pretty people like to date other pretty people. Good-looking folk tend to marry other good-looking folk. Beauty gravitates towards beauty, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Aug 28, 2010 05:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Raindrops keep falling
The summer was effectively over, according to the weather forecasters, from now on it was going to be rain all the way.
Updated on Aug 21, 2010 06:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Running in heels?
Heels are mandatory for all women who work as ground staff on airlines. So, they have no choice but to mince along on their heels, trying hard not to wince as their knees and backs groan...
Updated on Aug 14, 2010 06:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
What women want
This column is dedicated to all men who keep complaining that they have no idea what women want. To those men who despair of ever making their wives or girlfriends happy...
Updated on Aug 07, 2010 06:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
What’s not to hate?
There really can be no other honest reaction to smugness.
Updated on Jul 24, 2010 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
The battle of the sexes
It doesn’t matter if a woman is attractive, accomplished, talented, well-paid, successful, even famous. So long as she is a woman, victimhood is a cross that she must bear, says Seema Goswami.
Updated on Jul 17, 2010 06:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Big fat Indian wedding is passé
It is time we retired the Big fat Indian wedding, or better still gave it a decent burial so that it can’t come back and bite us in the bottom. Bring on the small thin Indian wedding instead.
Updated on Jul 10, 2010 04:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Why sleep deprivation is a modern malaise
Are you getting enough sleep? More to the point, are you getting enough deep sleep, the kind that really leaves you feeling like all’s well with the world? You can now get these answers in...
Updated on Jul 03, 2010 07:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Nothing is impossible
Living by that motto can often be a recipe for disaster.
Updated on Jun 26, 2010 06:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
What kind of shopper are you?
Every single person you know probably has a distinctive shopping style, give or take a few quirks. And nearly always this style mirrors their personality, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Jun 19, 2010 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
A friend in deed!
Facebook limits the number of friends you can have at 5,000. I’m not sure I even know 5,000 people, let alone have that number lining up to ‘friend’ me on Facebook, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Jun 12, 2010 04:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Men in heels
Apparently, the latest trend in men’s fashion is high heels. Of course, these are not the kind of high heels that any woman would deign to recognise. Stacked just a few inches high...
Updated on Jun 05, 2010 06:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
So, who’s sari now?
Why do Indian actresses make such a fetish of wearing gowns at international events?
Updated on May 29, 2010 05:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
True to type?
Is it really necessary to slot people into one box or the other?
Updated on May 22, 2010 06:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
The first wives club
The First Wives Club: It doesn’t really exist in Indian politics – and long may it stay that way, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on May 15, 2010 06:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Because I like it
We can no longer admit to doing something simply because we want to and because it brings us pleasure, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on May 01, 2010 07:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Sexism? Not quite
Sexism is real. It is dangerous. It is shameful. And it is alive and flourishing all around us. It starts even before birth, when families conspire to get rid of the girl child before she has begun to stir in her mother’s womb, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Apr 24, 2010 04:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Gender bender
In India more than 65,000 women die every year in childbirth. That is to say, in our country every eight minutes a woman dies while giving birth, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Apr 17, 2010 05:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Do soul mates exist?
Soul mates are like unicorns, mythical creatures who only exist in our fevered romantic imagination. They are the staple of soppy movies, pulp fiction and mediocre poetry, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Apr 10, 2010 06:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
Your happiness depends on your friends
It is your friends who determine how happy you are, what your weight is, how faithful you are to your spouse, and how moral or immoral you are generally, writes Seema Goswami.
Updated on Apr 03, 2010 05:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi
It's official: Marriage leads to weight gain
Married men are three times more likely to have big bellies than unmarried men, and married women are twice as likely to be a tad paunchy than their single counterparts, says research.
Updated on Mar 27, 2010 04:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami, New Delhi