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23)The Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- As India celebrates Republic Day time and the chests of numerous Indians swell with pride at the thought of our astounding diversity and imagined armed service prowess it is well to help reflect on what kind of Republic the has become. A republican type of government is not merely one out of which the head of condition 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 very own representatives is supreme. Exactly what has however been essential to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion associated with inclusiveness. In this respect the tales that have been coming out of India in recent times tell a tale that is chilling to the bones a tale which often leaves behind a stench that will no amount of sloganeering in relation to Swachh Bharat or even some thing more than a symbolic wielding with the broom can eradicate. When inclus