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21)A Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- As India celebrates Republic Moment and the chests of numerous Indians swell with pride at the thought of our tremendous diversity and imagined military prowess it is well to help reflect on what kind of Republic the actual has become. A republican type of government is not merely one in which the head of status 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 own representatives is supreme. Precisely what has however been vital to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion of inclusiveness. In this respect the reports that have been coming out of India recently tell a tale that is chill to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench that will no amount of sloganeering with regards to Swachh Bharat or even some thing more than a symbolic wielding from the broom can eradicate. When inclusiveness is the touchstone of the Re