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25)Any Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- Seeing that India celebrates Republic Time and the chests of countless Indians swell with pleasure at the thought of our astounding diversity and imagined navy prowess it is well to be able 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 puts on the idea that sovereignty resides inside the people and that the will of the people as expressed through their particular representatives is supreme. What has however been critical to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion involving inclusiveness. In this respect the reports that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is chill to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench which no amount of sloganeering about Swachh Bharat or even some thing more than a symbolic wielding on the broom can eradicate. In the event that inclusiveness is the touchstone