BEING SUSHEGAD

After the industrial evolution, the major evolution that changed the way the world functions is the technological evolution. Technology grew faster and we are adapting to this growth at a very fast pace. In the today’s date, we are changing the way we live too thanks to technology. The shift from analog to digital technology happened fast and changed things drastically thanks to continues demand of people wanting more convenience  in their life. 

And after the shift, there was no turning back, digital technology just grew at a very high pace, acquiring majority of traditional methods to digital methods like from sending mails to sending emails, from purchasing items from offline stores to purchasing online e-commerce websites, connecting people face to face virtually from all around the globe thanks to video calling ,from a button qwerty keypad phone to a full touch screen, from paying via cash to making cashless, direct bank payment, there are so many examples of this digital era that we live which has made our life more convenient and easy. But all the these digital services functions on an important aspect of the digital world, data.

 The emails you send via a email service like Gmail, require your personal details like phone number etc. The online shopping websites we visit like amazon.com require also your personal details like phone number, email id, exact house address. The online cashless payment you make require your bank accounts to be connected to the application. The touch screen phones require fingerprint and face id for the security lock of your device, the conversations you have with your friends and family are stored in the company servers of whose application you use, the maps you use to find locations takes your live in order to show you the distance from your destination.

 What if one day you come to know that your personal data is leaked or the company whose applications you use have used is keep the data for their own personal use? Scary right, feels like somebody has a control on your virtual life and things can take a wrong turn anytime affecting us directly. Well that’s when the importance of digital privacy come in. As we are growing and adapting to the everyday changing technology, we must create a barrier between on digital and real life and maintain some privacy.

Digital Privacy helps in promoting, understanding and protecting his/her individual private data one gives while using the internet. It also makes them know their data protection right and also gives the right to ask the company whose applications they use as to how their data is used. Due to the recent incidents of data breaches and leaks, Digital privacy is slowly gaining importance and making people self-aware about their vital personal data.

There are 3 types of privacy levels an individual should understand which are, information privacy, communication privacy and individual privacy. Information privacy means that individual has the have freedom to ask/determine how their digital information is been used.

Communication privacy means that the individual has the freedom to communicate their personal information with a expectation that their data is secure and the information reaches only to the concerned original receiver.

And lastly, individuals privacy is the right that an individual can stay on the internet freely keeping in mind the amount and the type of information they want to publish and no unwanted information should interrupt their experience. 

Even after knowing all the rights and maintaining privacy, there are data breaches that happen which can be a big threat to our privacy. There various methods that are used to execute such breaches. Hacking is a common methods used wherein a hacker can hack into data servers of an company, accounts, applications and can obtain information of an individuals either by directly attacking them individually or in a larger group.

Phishing is another commonly used method that’s used wherein, pe person create a fake website which is very similar to major commonly used/visited websites which may appear legit but have small variations like .org or .com. Then a link of these websites is sent through a fake email id which is disguised  as an email from the commonly used website. A person unaware of its authenticity will click on the link, sign up and fill in his personal data and information which directly goes to the person sitting the screen. Phishing attacks usually happen to get bank or financial data and also social media website information.

The case is not always on a personal or smaller scale. There have also some big data leak/breaches  incidents which bought spotlight to our data privacy and how alarming the situation has become.    Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agencies which is one of the third largest in United states of America, announced on September 2017 that their systems have been breached and the sensitive personal information of 148 million people is compromised. This data included information like names, home address, phone number, date of birth etc.

Facebook, a social media networking site, faced a data breach in 2019 wherein, 267 million Facebook users dates was exposed on databases online. The data exposed consisted of user id, phone numbers, names were left exposed online on databases. This data can accessed by anyone without the requirement of passwords or any form of  authentication which can be used by for SMS scams and by phishing website.

There have also been incidents where the company use your data stored with them to manipulate certain events.

The famous incident which shook the world was the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. In this scandal, personal data of millions of Facebook was used without their consent by a British company Cambridge Analytica, this information was used mostly for political advertising. The data was collected though an app called “ This is your digital life” which consisted of questions to build on psychological profiles on the users and personal data of the users Facebooks friends was also collected through Facebooks open graph platform. Cambridge Analytica used this information for analytical assistance for the 2016 presidential campaign between Donald trump and Ted Cruz. When this scandal was exposed and was proven guilty, Facebook was fined 5 billion dollars by the federal trade commission for violation of privacy of the users.

Data leaks/breaches events like this have bought our digital privacy at a questionable positions. But the situations get even scary in a country with 1.3 billion population, India. India got boost in its internet usage thanks to the introduction of Jio, a telecom company which gave internet services at a cheap price. This got many people connected to the internet but also came with additional problems due to low internet literacy making it a easy target for data to be misused. 

India does not have a specific data protection law, however the Indian legislature did amend the Information Technology Act (2000) (“IT Act”) for the inclusion of  Section 43A and Section 72A, which gives the right to compensation for improper disclosure of personal information of an induvial. The government also issued the  Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011. Personal data are protected by indirect safeguards developed the court which come under the law of principle of equity and the law of breach of confidence.

Even though we have these laws, there have been multiple incidents where the data off Indian citizen have been in danger.

Big basket, an online grocery shopping website, faced a data breach where personal data of 20 million user accounts was on sale on a online cyber market at price tag of 40,000$. The data include names, email id, passwords, pincode,phone number, addresses, date of birth etc.

Justdial, a local search company for different services in India , in 2019 exposed personal data of almost 100 millions users as they suffered a data breach. The personal data include names, email id, phone numbers etc. This breach came in limelight when independent security researchers posted about this in a Facebook post.

Unacademy, a EdTech startup revealed that they suffered a data breach which put the data of 22 million users at risk as this data which included names , passwords and email id where on sale on the dark web. 

In today’s digital era, it is considered that privacy is myth. But I believe that a individual’s digital privacy isn’t dead yet. A 2015 international survey conducted by Microsoft found out that the most of the online users don’t fully understand and know what kind of data is collect from them while they visit a website as websites collect these data in various ways. Either the data is given to the website by the user only or its take from them without their consent. While the Politian’s and governments work hard and aim to digital privacy right stronger and basic right, we as individuals should take our take our digital privacy seriously just like our real life privacy and can achieve some level of privacy.

There are various ways one can imply and protect their privacy. An individual should first understand how much information they want to share on social media as this information is easily accessible to anyone. They should also be thoughtful while posting on social media. They can adjust their browser setting as to how much information they want to share. They should learn to identify fake calls/SMS and be more self-aware by not sharing any personal details or passwords/pins to unknowns people and should educate themselves 

28th January is celebrated as an data privacy day with a sole purpose to increase awareness and promote privacy and data protection.  With the recent global response to the new WhatsApp Privacy policy forcing WhatsApp to delay and rework on their policy shows a positive signs that people are becoming aware of their privacy in this digital era as now digital privacy is now more important then ever. 

References: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/privacy-queen-of-human-rights-in-a-digital-world/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_privacy https://www.identityguard.com/news/what-is-digital-privacy https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/what-is-a-security-breach https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/facebook-data-of-267-million-users-exposed-online-1630084-2019-12-20 https://www.linklaters.com/en/insights/data-protected/data-protected—india https://www.csoonline.com/article/3541148/the-biggest-data-breaches-in-india.html https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/justdial-data-leak-exposed-personal-details-of-100-million-users-it-expert-119041800271_1.html

So, My First Trek was something very unexpected. A night before the trek, my high school batchmate messages me asking me “would you like to join this trek organized by a traveling group, it would be fun”. I was shit scared, nervous, anxiety ka volcano almost blast hone Wala tha. So I decided to do some research and turns out it was this place..

Like this was the place I was trying to get to for almost two years now, but didn’t have any solid information or location to go about. So I just got my stuff packed(that’s just water and my camera) and was waiting for the upcoming day. Do you remember those days when you would get up early and be ready for the picnic, yes, that’s what excalty what happened , all excited,on time( like seriously I was on time) and was waiting for the bus. This time the bus was late but no issues with that. Got in the bus, 40+ unknown people except for my friend, with anxiety knocking the door again and again I began my first trek. We were heading towards Satorem Waterfall, which is located in Valpoi district of the state. After a 2 and hours drive through the villages and lush green forests, we arrived at our destination. We were briefed abit, given our lunch boxes, and we began our journey. Walking through small water crossings, extremely steep slopes ,like seriously we crawled up our route in some places and going through dense and highly saturated green trees, I realized that this trek was the best decision, I needed this break(and thank god I starting gyming which made this trek way more easier and less tiring). After around 2-3 hours of trekking we reached our destination and oh boy….that place was just like paradise man. All my struggle and tiredness just vanished, me and friend just looked at the falls, like that feeling was unexpressive. Just when I was great full about this trek, things took a really “wild” wrong turn.

There was an sudden Honeybees attack on the whole batch, there where screams all over the place, I ran for my life thinking I could get away with this but nope, as a sweet person I’m, I too got attacked and lord. THAT STING HURTS!!!, like seriously I could not think about anything and the only voice I heard was ” Jump In the water”, so I threw my camera bag and just jumped and stayed there until everything settled. It was the most terrific experience, one side I saw a girl fully covered in Honeybees, crying for help but no one act at that moment, on the other side my Friend who saw this attack first, ran but fell from a small drop-off and broke her leg and was covered with Honeybees. This horror sequence remained for an half and hour until everything settled as someone ignited some smoke. The first girl was immediately taken to the hospital but my friend couldn’t even move her leg, and it’s next to impossible to take her with the route we came. So with the help of a few other trekers, we made a stretche using the woods and took through a new route which took us almost 5-6 hours to reach our base. She and all of us were later taken to the nearest hospital for treatment. We later informed, the girl covered with Honeybees had 3 Honeybee extracted from her ears and my friend had a fracture and nothing major.
A trek that started off so well, turned into a last trek for most of us. But for me, I learnt way to many things in one incident. Everyone lost something or the other,I almost lost my most precious thing, my camera. Remember I said I threw my camera and jumped in the waters, after everything settled down, I asked someone to search for my bag and he removed my bag from the water like a Marie biscuit from a chai, I skipped a heartbeat, praying nothing had happened,but the damage was done. Right now the camera is gone for repair and I got to wait for a week or so. Although this story didn’t have an happy ending, we all had an lifetime experience, something we will never forget, something I’ll never forget.

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Situated on the shores of Anjuna beach, Titlie is one of those fancy restaurants on that lane and today will talk about this place. Titlie has a very relaxing, calm, mesmerizing environment. The staff is very welcoming however the service was totally opposite, it was slow and abit disoriented.

The food i ordered a(Left To Right) Spaghetti A.O.P, Dark Chocolate Sorbet, Green peas and goat cheese kulcha, Champs- Elysees. Althoug the dishes are abit overpriced, there taste was just worth the prices.

Overall, Titlie is an amazing place to go out wit your loved ones, family etc,but just be ready to get a big hole in our pocket.

There are movies with are made for mass audience and some for a selected, but some movies just touch our emotions regardless of it’s language… chhichhore is one of those stories. Directed by Nitesh Tiwari, the film stars Sushant Singh Rajput and Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles, this movie speaks about a story of bunch of college friends, their rollercoaster and ride and how one should look at life.
Sushant Singh Rajput as Anirudh ”Anni” Pathak does play a very engaging character and grows with us as the movie proceeds. Shradha Kapoor as Maya Pathak plays one of her best roles even though she had minimum screen time. Supporting casts do play major roles in the movies played by Varun Sharma,Prateik Babbar,Tahir Raj Bhasin ,Naveen Polishetty. Song like “Khariyat” just blend in perfectly with the movie.
Overall, This movie does teaches you alot of the perspective of life and how this rollercoaster ride can be fun with a bunch of true friends. Even though it’s a one time watch, the plot just never gets old. The movie was released on 6th September, and is now available on Hotstar( highly recommended to watch with your gang).

💥♥️👫💀(Dialogue)💥♥️🔥💀, confused with these emoji depiction, well that’s excalty how mind questioning, predictable and generic the plot of the movie “Marjaavaan” is. Directed by Milap Zaveri staring Riteish Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra, Tara Sutaria and Rakul Preet Singh, the movie is very violent romantic drama movie filled with mic drop Hindi dialogues (on steroids) which at first you enjoy but later just fill like “Ha ha malum hai”.
Sidharth Malhotra aka Raghu does gives an impactful character which does engages the audience along side the antagonist Vishnu played by Riteish Feshmukh who’s character is a dwarf but has no heights to show his evil side and intensions. The main aspect of the movie which in my opinion attracted it’s audience were the songs.
Overall, Marjaavaan is just an average masala one time watch movie with dialogues literally on steroids. The movie released on 15th November 2019 after multiple delays, and in now available on Amazon Prime.

Rating:3.5/5 ⭐

Located opposite Vivanta By Taj, Panaji, this small cafe has a cosy atmosphere but it’s really small. The main highlight of the cafe is Cad-be(thick chocolate shake with shredded Cadbury topping). They also offer side eatery item like burgers, sandwiches etc, which is above average.

Finally got to watch this really intense yet so good psychology thriller called “YOU”. Developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, You is based on the books “You”( season 1) and “hidden Bodies” (season 2). The series has a very intense storyline with pinch of romantic goals which turn into nightmares for the loved ones of the protagonist in both the season. The first season follows the story of Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager in New York, who upon meeting Guinevere Beck, an aspiring writer, becomes infatuated with her. He feeds his toxic obsession using social media and other technology to track her presence and remove obstacles to their romance.In the second season, Joe Goldberg moves from New York to Los Angeles to escape his past, and starts over with a new identity. When he meets avid chef Love Quinn, Joe begins falling into his old patterns of obsession and violence. As Joe attempts to forge a new love in the City of Angels, he strives to make his relationship with Love succeed at all costs, to avoid the fate of his past romantic endeavours.
Penn Badgley aka Joe Goldberg does a phenomenal job with his character, like you fall for the characters manipulations and romantic charm unknown, by his scary and disturbing thought proceses. Actresses Elizabeth Lail as Guinevere Bec( season 1) and Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn (season 2) also do amazing with their respective roles. With a simple cinematography, good location and simple display of intense emotions does its job of hooking you through both the seasons.
Overall , “YOU ” season 1&2 are one of those few seasons who keep up with their content and maintain or increase the level of suspense and thrill.So if have yours, brothers, cousins or girlfriends Netflix account password, Do consider this in your “must watch” list.

Remake season is at its peak with this movie being in the same category but has something different to offer. Pati, Patni aur Woh directed by Mudassar Aziz is a remake of the OG same title movie. The story is about a man running and trying to balance is “Ghar wali” and “Bahar wali” life with various incidents making thing complicated and funny. The movie has a very enjoyable and quite an engaging plot, a few scenes felt like what is the purpose but these scenes are saved by the supporting cast.
Kartik Aryan (aka Chitu tyagi) has been stuck in that ” Good Boy” genre but he is perfect in it. Seamlessly going through all the problems and life events to a point that you are engaged with the protagonist and connect with him. Bhumi Pednekar and Annaya pandey play a really impactful role respectively, especially Bhumi Pednekar slaying with her performance. Aparshakti Khurana is the driving force of this movie, being the side kick of the protagonist, y
everytime the movie losses the pace, he with his on time humor saves the day. The songs were one of the main reason which attracted the audience to the cinema.
So will Chintu Tyagi be able to balance it or get crushed by both the sides? Pati Patni aur Woh is a good family one time entertainer. The movie was released on 6th December 2019 and is available on Amazon Prime

Getting aside from the famous “Bala challenge”,this version of Bala is come to narrate a different, impactfull yet extremely funny story. Directed by Amar Kaushik, Bala is a story of a man suffering for male pattern baldness and his experiences presented in a very humorous and in a quirky mannerism. The movie is direct to the point leaving you either laughing very hard or caught in the emotional scenes during the 2 hour 13 mins runtime.
Ayushmann Khurrana and his midas touch on script and story selection has yet again proved to be golden. Every screen appearance by the protagonist just magically connects to you as the character grows, Ayushmann seamlessly takes us on this unique and eye opening journey of “Self Acceptance” from his premature baldness. Co- stars Bhumi Pednekar, Yami Gautam, Javed Jaffrey, Saurabh Shukla, and Seema Pahwa also play very impactful roles everytime they are on the screen respectively. The movie has narration by Vijay Raz as “Bal/ Hair” narrating during the whole runtime keeping us occupied in every new experience the protagonist goes through. The music overall was quite catchy and not over flowing.
Overall, Bala is excellent take on how no matter what is your physical appearance, accepting the way you are and gaining self confidence is the best medicine you can take to end the societal pressure and stereotypes. It’s a must watch paisa wasol movie, watch out the SRK references. The movie is now available on Hotstar.

Life is really busy, and sometimes we lose our-self in this race. So,take a break, do what you like and be happy, be SUSHEGAD. On this blog, I write movie and food reviews, something which I like to talk about and makes me sushegad. Stay tuned!!