NDA with new allies

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Why is the BJP losing opposition space to people like Arvind

Kejriwal and Mamata Banerjee?

That's not true. All the corruption scandals of the UPA

government were exposed by us: 2G, CWG, Coalgate. We stalled

an entire session of Parliament over Coalgate.

Yet the BJP has been unable to forge and assume leadership of

an anti-Congress front. Regional leaders like Mamata

Banerjee, Mulayam Singh and Mayawati don't want to touch you.

The problem is vote-bank politics. We believe in the politics

of development and do not discriminate against anyone on the

basis of caste or religion. Unfortunately, people don't care

to understand us. There is a problem of image vs reality and

ground reality vs perception. So we have been branded as

communal.

This is the coalition era. Unless you are able to expand the

NDA with new allies, how will you move forward?

There is a formula for this. We can't expand the NDA right

now. But let me tell you, once we win 160-170 seats in the

Lok Sabha polls, all those who are shunning us today will

come running. It won't take even half a second. No one will

call us communal then.

In other words, the BJP is a political untouchable at the

moment.

There is no question of untouchability. These are cold

political calculations. Jayalalithaa doesn't want a Congress

government at the centre. Nor does Mamata. Even the UPA's

allies - NCP, DMK, SP and BSP - are only supporting the

Congress courtesy the CBI. The Congress is blackmailing them

through the CBI director. He's the real coordinator of this

government. Sonia Gandhi should make him a special invitee to

the Congress Working Committee!

The unprecedented peek is being provided

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SAN FRANCISCO: Google is opening a virtual window into the
secretive data centers where an intricate maze of computers
process internet search requests, show YouTube video clips
and distribute email for millions of people.
The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new
website unveiled at
 The
site features photos from inside some of the eight data
centers that Google already has running in the US, Finland
and Belgium. Google is also building data centers in Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Chile.
Virtual tours of a North Carolina data center also will be
available through Google's "Street View'' service, which is
usually used to view photos of neighborhoods around the
world.
The photographic access to Google's data centers coincides
with the publication of a Wired magazine article about how
the company builds and operates them. The article is written
by Steven Levy, a journalist who won Google's trust while
writing "In The Plex,'' a book published last year about the
company's philosophy and evolution.
The data centers represent Google's nerve center, although
none are located near the company's headquarters in Mountain
View, California.

Modernity means

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But it is a lonely and ultimately desperate fight, for in the struggle between traditionalism and modernity, tradition cannot win--even though traditional forces armed with modern weapons, technologies, and ideologies can do horrendous damage. All the world's rich and powerful nations have more or less embraced the economic, technological, and even social aspects of modernization and globalization. All have embraced, with varying degrees of complaint and resistance, the free flow of goods, finances, and services and the intermingling of cultures and lifestyles that characterizes the modern world. Increasingly, their people watch the same television shows, listen to the same music, and go to the same movies. Along with this dominant modern culture, they have accepted--even as they may also deplore--the essential characteristics of a modern ethics and aesthetics. Modernity means, among other things, the sexual as well as political and economic liberation of women; the weakening of church authority and the strengthening of secularism; the existence of what used to be called the counterculture; and the exercise of free expression in the arts (if not in politics), which includes the freedom to commit blasphemy and to lampoon symbols of faith, authority, and morality. These are the consequences of liberalism and capitalism unleashed and unchecked by the constraining hand of tradition, or a powerful church, or a moralistic and domineering government. Even the Chinese have learned that while it is possible to have capitalism without political liberalization, it is much harder.