In her schooldays, she recalls getting involved in many mischievous acts and thinks it was more than normal to do so.
“Once, I remember, one of my classmates’ attendances was running short. So he tore the attendance sheet and threw it away. Though everyone of us knew it was him, nobody spoke out when the teacher asked, and everybody was suspended,” she says, laughing. “So all of us went around and had a lot of fun which our teacher came to know of. She called all of us back and we got a good scolding.”
She also recalls exploding firecrackers in the restroom during her teenage days.
“We used to wrap all the crackers in a newspaper and burn one end of it before leaving for the classroom,” Golcha says. “We would be listening to the lecture in the classroom when the crackers went off. As everyone was in her respective class, nobody was ever caught,” she adds casually.
Seema claims that she never had to steal any money from her parents but remembers how she never returned the change of the amount given her by them.
“My parents themselves knew how much to give as I never returned the change,” she laughs.
One thing she could not imagine her life without was fighting with her only sibling, her elder brother.
“It was not just verbal fights we had; we used to physically beat each other up. He was a lot bigger than me, so he could easily defeat me,” she says, adding how she was fighting with her brother in the morning of her own wedding.
Then for her college, she went to Delhi. Miranda House was where she stayed in its hostel and had a lot of fun in her later teenage days.
“The classes there were upto one o’clock in the afternoon and we were free to go anywhere till 7:30 in the evening,” she says. “Running short of pocket money was the only problem I faced in the hostel.”
But as any other teenager, pranks were in the air for her as well.
“Once we heard that our warden was on leave. So we went to a night movie that ended at 9 pm. After the show, we went for dinner, and when we came back, our warden was standing at the gate of our hostel,” she says. “No wonder, we had to go through a lot then, from reporting to the principal’s office to not being allowed to go home during the following holiday.”
It was also in her later teenage days that she met her husband Shekhar Golcha. She recalls their first meeting very clearly.
“One of my close friends and I were waiting for the bus at the bus stand when he passed by in his car. I told my friend that he would turn back, which he actually did. But as he was shy to ask us if we wanted a lift, he left without saying a word,” she laughs. “Then all I remember is fighting with him for every single thing,” she recalls.
All in all, though, she doesn’t remember having problems with her parents, or having to lie to them about anything, unlike other teenagers.
“The first time I bunked school, I informed my mother in advance that I was going to do so and told her to pretend in front of my friends that she knew nothing about it as they would be annoyed if they knew that she knew about it,” she laughs.
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