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28)A Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Day time and the chests of a lot of Indians swell with delight at the thought of our enormous diversity and imagined military prowess it is well to reflect on what kind of Republic the has become. A republican sort of government is not merely one in which the head of condition is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic engraves the idea that sovereignty resides inside the people and that the will of the testers as expressed through their particular representatives is supreme. Exactly what has however been important to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion regarding inclusiveness. In this respect the reports that have been coming out of India recently tell a tale that is relaxing to the bones a tale which often leaves behind a stench in which no amount of sloganeering regarding Swachh Bharat or even one thing more than a symbolic wielding in the broom can eradicate. In the event that inclusiveness is the