November, 2009

Team ENVY was lucky enough to connect with Seema Goswami of the Hindustan Times who wrote a great article recently about ENVY and the mid-life crisis.  Here’s what Seema had to say about ENVY in India:

Envy is a four letter word. And like all rude words, it’s not one that we like to use in polite company. And yet, there it is, lurking just beneath the surface, rising like bile within us, though we hurriedly bite it off before it emerges on our lips.  No, envy is not a character trait that any of us is proud of. It’s not a feeling that we like to own up to. But however much we can deny it, it is an emotion that is deeply rooted in our psyche and near impossible to be rid of.  Living in Delhi, the capital of India, I find that envy is endemic. We envy our neighbours; their herbaceous borders, their new BMWs, their bright, shiny children. We envy our friends and colleagues; their raises, that brilliant new job, that great break in the Maldives, their stock portfolios, their proximity to powerful bureaucrats or politicians.  In other words, we envy pretty much everyone who is richer, more famous and more powerful. Sadly, in some cases, that means we envy pretty much everyone we know!

Take a look at what Seema had to say in her recent Hindustan Times article.

Seema Goswami is a weekly columnist with the Hindustan Times, India’s leading English language daily. Her bestselling book on women at the workplace, Woman on Top (Random House) has been translated into several Indian languages. Seema lives in Delhi but enjoys travelling the world for both work and pleasure.