2)A Republic of Inhospitality
India Republic Day -- Because India celebrates Republic Day and the chests of millions of Indians swell with pleasure at the thought of our huge diversity and imagined navy prowess it is well to help reflect on what kind of Republic the particular has become. A republican form of government is not merely one out of which the head of state 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. Just what has however been crucial 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 often leaves behind a stench that will no amount of sloganeering about Swachh Bharat or even some thing more than a symbolic wielding in the broom can eradicate. In the event that inclusiveness is the tou...