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21)Any Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Day time and the chests of numerous Indians swell with pride at the thought of our immens e diversity and imagined military prowess it is well in order to reflect on what kind of Republic the nation has become. A republican form of government is not merely one out of which the head of state is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic engraves the idea that sovereignty resides inside the people and that the will of the people as expressed through their own representatives is supreme. What has however been essential to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion involving inclusiveness. In this respect the tales that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is chilling to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench that no amount of sloganeering concerning Swachh Bharat or even one thing more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. If inclusiveness is the touchstone of an Repub