50)The Republic of Inhospitality
India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Day and the chests of millions of Indians swell with pride at the thought of our immens e diversity and imagined army prowess it is well to help reflect on what kind of Republic the country has become. A republican kind of government is not merely one out of which the head of condition is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic puts on the idea that sovereignty resides in the people and that the will of the testers as expressed through all their representatives is supreme. Precisely what has however been critical to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion involving inclusiveness. In this respect the stories that have been coming out of India in recent times tell a tale that is chill to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench that no amount of sloganeering in relation to Swachh Bharat or even one thing more than a symbolic wielding with the broom can eradicate. In case inclusiveness is the touch