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India Republic Day -- Because India celebrates Republic Morning and the chests of an incredible number of Indians swell with pleasure at the thought of our enormous diversity and imagined government prowess it is well in order to reflect on what kind of Republic the actual has become. A republican form of government is not merely one in which the head of express is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic puts on the idea that sovereignty resides inside people and that the will of the people as expressed through all their representatives is supreme. What has however been crucial to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion associated with inclusiveness. In this respect the testimonies that have been coming out of India in recent years tell a tale that is chilling to the bones a tale which will leaves behind a stench in which no amount of sloganeering about Swachh Bharat or even something more than a symbolic wielding on the broom can eradicate. In the event tha