9)Any Republic of Inhospitality
India Republic Day -- Seeing that India celebrates Republic Day time and the chests of numerous Indians swell with delight at the thought of our enormous diversity and imagined army prowess it is well to help reflect on what kind of Republic the country has become. A republican kind of government is not merely one in which the head of state is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic rests on the idea that sovereignty resides inside the people and that the will of the people as expressed through 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 stories that have been coming out of India in recent years tell a tale that is chilling to the bones a tale which leaves behind a stench which no amount of sloganeering in relation to Swachh Bharat or even a thing more than a symbolic wielding in the broom can eradicate. In the event that inclusiveness is t...