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3)A Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Day time and the chests of an incredible number of Indians swell with pride at the thought of our huge diversity and imagined army prowess it is well in order 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 inside people and that the will of the testers as expressed through all their representatives is supreme. Precisely what has however been important to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion regarding inclusiveness. In this respect the stories that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is relaxing to the bones a tale which often leaves behind a stench this no amount of sloganeering with regards to Swachh Bharat or even anything more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. When inclusiveness is the touchstone