Internet Security Concept of Brits and India Government’s Culture Concept
This is Chuck Doherty writing this account from a Spanish-style hotel in Hollywood. And you guessed it right, I am here to have a discussion on the burning issue of internet piracy and the role of the broadband providers there. This hotel named after a former US President cost around $2.5 million to be completed. According to a steward at the restaurant of the hotel, the christening of the hotel reflected the reverence the founder had for the late President. At this point what comes to my mind is the respect that the people (government?) of another country maintained for their former Prime Ministers. Now how would it look if it is all about a conservative India and its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru? Yes, I was taken to the subject a bit deeper by one of my acquaintances here that is a hard core supporter of the so called Indian cultural values, although he is an American by citizenship.
I, half an hour back had the luxury of walking and talking with this man Jaffar Navaz who runs a sound restaurant here. I had realised his culinary skills earlier at his joint while savouring his recommended ‘Roghun Josh’, an indigenous spicy lamb preparation of the Hindukush mountain belt. However, I found out later that our consensus limited within the subject of the Roghun Josh. Particularly for his prejudice against a proposed Hollywood film, Indian Summer that would conceive the controversially romantic saga of Nehru-Edwina Mountbatten relationship. Navaz’s opinion was shaped up on the moral grounds that the great men of history should be spared from the late Paparazzi culture of even digging the graves for sensitive content. And on being asked what was wrong in having an affair with a beautiful lady after all, his reply was simple and terse. He said, “I suspect a slander intended that the great man had been promiscuous for going after another man’s spouse, which could even push the politics of the country into a whirlpool.”
I am obviously unsure if Navaz’s stance reflected the general attitude of the people of India. Nevertheless, I have definitely come across scores of noble souls in that part of the world, who thought that there were more serious aspects attributed to the greats of the past, to be followed as well as maintained ardently. However, only time can say whether the production of the Hugh Grant-Cate Blanchett starrer heeds to the Indian government’s order that the love scenes between characters based on Nehru and Edwina be deleted from the movie.
Meanwhile, in another part of the world – to be precise the land that gave birth to the Mountbattens – a research carried out by a pro-broadband website revealed that the majority of the British broadband customers believed that their UK broadband provider’s service was reasonably secure. The website unveiled the fact that nearly 90 per cent of the UK customers thought they had a reasonably secure broadband connection. Along with this some other figures were also published by the website, such as 85.9 per cent of users believed that they themselves were responsible for their internet security and 78.5 consumers have installed an Anti-virus + Firewall package. I sincerely do not know if there is something common between the Indian Summer controversy of the Indian folk and the internet security concept of the UK folk.
But, while ambling on the pavement of Hollywood Boulevard, I do not know why I am hit by this strange feeling of insecurity, which has almost nullified the euphoria that I had acquired a little while back when I passed through the Walk of Fame here. My insecurity, to be honest, can be linked with my knowledge that a legislation proposal was waiting for me back home that could see my internet connection terminated for the crime of downloading content illegally. Inadvertently as well, because I have a bunch of young friends most of them in their teenage, and I also do not monitor their activity on my system. Never mind, now I can chuck out my insecurity thinking that even if I am left deprived of a home broadband connection, I will still continue as part of the digital Britain. As a respected 50p monthly tax payer of this country, for I do own a copper phone line in Britain.
