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India Republic Day -- Because India celebrates Republic Morning and the chests of millions of Indians swell with delight at the thought of our immens e diversity and imagined military prowess it is well to reflect on what kind of Republic the nation has become. A republican type of government is not merely one in which the head of point out is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic engraves the idea that sovereignty resides within the people and that the will of the people as expressed through all their representatives is supreme. Precisely what has however been essential to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion involving inclusiveness. In this respect the experiences that have been coming out of India nowadays tell a tale that is relaxing to the bones a tale which often leaves behind a stench that will no amount of sloganeering about Swachh Bharat or even anything more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. When inclusiveness is the touchst