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India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Morning and the chests of a lot of Indians swell with pride at the thought of our enormous diversity and imagined navy prowess it is well in order to reflect on what kind of Republic the nation has become. A republican kind of government is not merely one in which the head of status is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic engraves the idea that sovereignty resides in the people and that the will of the testers as expressed through their own representatives is supreme. Just what has however been vital to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion involving inclusiveness. In this respect the stories that have been coming out of India lately tell a tale that is relaxing to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench which no amount of sloganeering with regards to Swachh Bharat or even anything more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. In the event inclusiveness is the touchstone of the