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22)The Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- Since India celebrates Republic Morning and the chests of an incredible number of Indians swell with pride at the thought of our tremendous diversity and imagined navy prowess it is well to be able to reflect on what kind of Republic the nation has become. A republican kind of government is not merely one out of which the head of condition is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic rests on the idea that sovereignty resides from the people and that the will of the testers as expressed through their very own representatives is supreme. What has however been crucial to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion regarding inclusiveness. In this respect the reports that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is chilling to the bones a tale which often leaves behind a stench in which no amount of sloganeering about Swachh Bharat or even some thing more than a symbolic wielding in the broom can eradicate. In the event that inclu