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<div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2014August%2F300x100_081314075745.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>Some 25 years back, a Kolkata daily carried a full-page interview with me. One of the questions posed to me was: "Mr Advani, could you tell me what is your weakness?" I promptly replied: "Books". And added: "On a grosser level, it is chocolates." Since then, quite a few of those who come to greet me on some special occasion obligingly gift me with either some book, or a box of chocolates.</p><p>One of the best books I have received in recent months is The New Digital Age. The book is authored by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, and Jared Cohen, director, Google Ideas. The co-authors have opened their introduction to the book with the observation: "The Internet is among the few things humans have built that they don't truly understand."</p><div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2013aug%2Fadvani_081013061808.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img>BJP Leader LK Advani</div></p><p>India has been independent now for over 60 years. We have not succeeded in overcoming poverty or illiteracy,and many other infrastructural shortcomings. We have not been able to attend satisfactorily even to the healthcare of millions. But the world nevertheless respects our country for maintaining itself as a 
healthy, vibrant democracy. We have managed this because of our refusal 
to compromise with curbs on freedom of expression, except those that can
 be called 'reasonable'.</p><p>Political activists like me, however, cannot forget what happened in 1975-77 on the plea of protecting internal security. A phoney, fraudulent Emergency was imposed on the country under Article 352 of the Constitution. Fundamental rights were suspended, more than one lakh politicians and pressmen were declared threats to national security and detained without trial. So when told that the topic for this Special Number is: Why India needs freedom from political control on social media, I readily agreed. The Emergency experience fully justifies a positive response to the question posed.But I would add that the arrival of the Internet has created a totally new situation.Insofar as security of citizens and nations are concerned, the latest threat is terrorism. The New Digital Age carries a full chapter dealing with terrorism. It says: "As we have made clear, technology is an equal-opportunity enabler, providing powerful tools for people to use for their own ends,sometimes wonderfully constructive ends, but sometimes unimaginably destructive ones."<br></p><div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2013aug%2Fpolitics_081013062310.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div></p><p>The book specifically refers to the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008: "Technology made these attacks much more deadly than they could have been otherwise, but once the last (and only surviving) gunman was captured, the information he and, critically, the leftover devices of his comrades, provided allowed investigators to follow an electronic trail to significant people and places in Pakistan that might not have otherwise been known for months, if ever."</p><p>For India to continue to remain a vibrant democracy, our attitude to the issue of freedom of expression must always be uncompromising; but for considerations of security, both of citizens as well as the nation, there has to be a caveat: Adequate vigilance must be maintained in respect of modern communication devices-particularly devices that can be used to trigger explosions.</p><p><i><b>-Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani maintains a blog, Lkadvani.</b></i></p><div class="itemcenter"><amp-iframe height="62" title="" width="320" sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allowfullscreen src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014%5Cu0026native%3D1" class="mrBt15 preferred-source-banner"> </amp-iframe></div><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Aug 8, 2013</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></div>

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<div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2014August%2F300x100_081314075745.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div><p>Some 25 years back, a Kolkata daily carried a full-page interview with me. One of the questions posed to me was: "Mr Advani, could you tell me what is your weakness?" I promptly replied: "Books". And added: "On a grosser level, it is chocolates." Since then, quite a few of those who come to greet me on some special occasion obligingly gift me with either some book, or a box of chocolates.</p><p>One of the best books I have received in recent months is The New Digital Age. The book is authored by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, and Jared Cohen, director, Google Ideas. The co-authors have opened their introduction to the book with the observation: "The Internet is among the few things humans have built that they don't truly understand."</p><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title="LK Advani"  class="" alt="LK Advani" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2013aug%2Fadvani_081013061808.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>BJP Leader LK Advani</div></p><p>India has been independent now for over 60 years. We have not succeeded in overcoming poverty or illiteracy,and many other infrastructural shortcomings. We have not been able to attend satisfactorily even to the healthcare of millions. But the world nevertheless respects our country for maintaining itself as a 
healthy, vibrant democracy. We have managed this because of our refusal 
to compromise with curbs on freedom of expression, except those that can
 be called 'reasonable'.</p><p>Political activists like me, however, cannot forget what happened in 1975-77 on the plea of protecting internal security. A phoney, fraudulent Emergency was imposed on the country under Article 352 of the Constitution. Fundamental rights were suspended, more than one lakh politicians and pressmen were declared threats to national security and detained without trial. So when told that the topic for this Special Number is: Why India needs freedom from political control on social media, I readily agreed. The Emergency experience fully justifies a positive response to the question posed.But I would add that the arrival of the Internet has created a totally new situation.Insofar as security of citizens and nations are concerned, the latest threat is terrorism. The New Digital Age carries a full chapter dealing with terrorism. It says: "As we have made clear, technology is an equal-opportunity enabler, providing powerful tools for people to use for their own ends,sometimes wonderfully constructive ends, but sometimes unimaginably destructive ones."<br></p><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2013aug%2Fpolitics_081013062310.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div></div></p><p>The book specifically refers to the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008: "Technology made these attacks much more deadly than they could have been otherwise, but once the last (and only surviving) gunman was captured, the information he and, critically, the leftover devices of his comrades, provided allowed investigators to follow an electronic trail to significant people and places in Pakistan that might not have otherwise been known for months, if ever."</p><p>For India to continue to remain a vibrant democracy, our attitude to the issue of freedom of expression must always be uncompromising; but for considerations of security, both of citizens as well as the nation, there has to be a caveat: Adequate vigilance must be maintained in respect of modern communication devices-particularly devices that can be used to trigger explosions.</p><p><i><b>-Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani maintains a blog, Lkadvani.</b></i></p><div class="itemcenter"><iframe scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="62" awidth="320" aheight="62" amplayout="fixed" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014" class="preferred-source-banner" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><style>.preferred-source-banner{  margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}</style><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Aug 8, 2013</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></div>

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 issue of freedom of expression must always be uncompromising, says Advani in his blog.

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L K Advani blog: One of the best books I have received in recent months is The New Digital Age. The book is authored by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google,and Jared Cohen, director, Google Ideas. The co-authors have opened their introduction to the book with the observation: The Internet is among the few things humans have built that they do not truly understand.

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