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India Republic Day -- As India celebrates Republic Time and the chests of millions of Indians swell with take great pride in at the thought of our astounding diversity and imagined army prowess it is well to reflect on what kind of Republic the actual has become. A republican sort of government is not merely one out of which the head of state is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic rests on the idea that sovereignty resides within the people and that the will of the people as expressed through their representatives is supreme. Precisely what has however been critical to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion regarding inclusiveness. In this respect the stories that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is chill to the bones a tale which leaves behind a stench in which no amount of sloganeering in relation to Swachh Bharat or even a thing more than a symbolic wielding on the broom can eradicate. In the event that inclusiveness is the tou