29)The Republic of Inhospitality
India Republic Day -- Seeing that India celebrates Republic Moment and the chests of a lot of Indians swell with pleasure at the thought of our astounding diversity and imagined army prowess it is well to help reflect on what kind of Republic the actual has become. A republican form of government is not merely one in which the head of status is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic puts on the idea that sovereignty resides from the people and that the will of the testers as expressed through their own representatives is supreme. What has however been essential to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion connected with inclusiveness. In this respect the reports that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is relaxing to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench in which no amount of sloganeering regarding Swachh Bharat or even anything more than a symbolic wielding in the broom can eradicate. When inclusiveness is the touchstone of y