Broadband access a legal right in Finland, we still lack sanitation!!

In the first week of July providing high speed broadband service to all the citizens became a legal right in Finland. Just while reading this peace of news from a national daily, I was wondering we at India are so, so backward that we still haven’t solved our sanitation problem leave alone technological stuff like broadband and 3G or 4G.

This particular news item on Finland was of significant importance to me more than others as, if things would have happened as planned for me a year ago, I would have now been almost enjoying this right (not as a citizen but as an employee of a Finnish company though). And there I would have wondered about having high quality broadband service while we in India still suffer from low quality voice calling to say the least. We at India are still ages behind if we compare ourselves with countries like Finland in terms of technological innovation, human rights, crime, employment, infrastructure and many other parameters.

How will we get ahead while we have nefarious animals in the form of humans in our country killing innocent youngsters in the name of honor? If that time and energy was spent on doing certain other productive things for one self as well as the country, that would have fetched them and the country some global honor may be, and saving both them and the country some crime, brutality and sharp minds. Anyhow such is the kind of treatment one could expect in a society(country) that is uneducated at large and is tied in the bonds of self proclaimed tradition and other nonsense of past.

We lack so many basic rights as humans that broadband is still irrelevant to more than three quarters of the population at least. How can we think of broadband as a right even in our wildest dream when we seem to have nothing in place to even make a connection available in almost half of the living area of our population? There is neither the infrastructure (roads, power and so on) nor the education required with a huge chunk of the population to be able to access broadband services even in case they could be made available by some miracle.

So let’s make sure we give sanitation and education as legal rights at the earliest to all the citizens and then we can become eligible of dreaming about broadband services or other technological innovations in some portions of the country to start with per say. And then we can think of people moving around with latest gadgets in their hands downloading stuff from the internet early in the morning instead of them moving around with broken dirty mugs containing contaminated water walking towards the railway track to unload the stuff they managed to beg, borrow or steal the previous day to feed themselves. And that day we would also already be seeing tidy kids with clothes on their body, oil on their hair, with polished shoes and instead of dirt and grease on their hands (from being bonded labor) we may expect a book or a newspaper at least, to start moving towards being one among the best countries to live in, in the world.

P.S - While writing this post, just a second before I was about to finish writing, there was a power cut and I lost the document as a result ( I forgot to save the same while typing). Fortunately I managed to get it recovered, else living in one of the best cities of the country, I would have had to curse the infrastructure even more than we usually do for it is of no use having a broadband connection at home when such power cuts interrupt my work to the extent of almost losing it. Grrrrr...!!

Today’s Favorite Line – The slower we move, the faster we die.

Today’s Favorite Song -  Allah ke bande (Kailash Kher)