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29)Any Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Moment and the chests of countless Indians swell with pride at the thought of our tremendous 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 point out is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic engraves the idea that sovereignty resides inside the 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 connected with inclusiveness. In this respect the testimonies that have been coming out of India lately tell a tale that is chilling to the bones a tale which usually leaves behind a stench in which no amount of sloganeering in relation to Swachh Bharat or even some thing more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. In case inclusi...