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39)A Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- Because India celebrates Republic Day time and the chests of millions of Indians swell with take great pride in at the thought of our astounding diversity and imagined military prowess it is well to reflect on what kind of Republic the has become. A republican way of government is not merely one in which the head of status is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic engraves the idea that sovereignty resides from the people and that the will of the testers as expressed through all their representatives is supreme. Precisely what has however been essential to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion connected with inclusiveness. In this respect the tales that have been coming out of India in recent times tell a tale that is chill to the bones a tale which often leaves behind a stench that will no amount of sloganeering about Swachh Bharat or even anything more than a symbolic wielding in the broom can eradicate. In the event inclusiveness