When I first learned in school about democracy and how elections happen in India – it made me feel proud. The collective power of people to elect their local representatives who propose confidence in one person among themselves to lead the nation. But the more I discuss politics with people, the more I realise they have no interest in electing their local representative. Their interest lies in one person only – who the Prime Minister is. I don’t always suspect this to be the case. People around me are a very small sample size, but that’s enough for me to be sceptical about how democracy, in theory, differs from democracy in practice. And that is the case for most things in life.