Sitting with his family while watching the news of the ferocious second wave of COVID-19 raging throughout India, Sohit- a college student- was exasperated by the gross negligence and mishandling during the COVID-19, which has been claiming thousands of lives every day. He said, “Alas! This country is heading towards a bigger crisis i.e., a crisis of misgovernance. Unless we change how we do our politics and encourage more young voices and people from all walks of life to be part of it, we are heading towards a bigger crisis.” Sohit’s concerns when looked at in the present context seems well-placed, from misperception to polarization to criminalization to inequity all has long been deeply ingrained into Indian politics. Our forefathers willfully adopted a liberal democratic structure with a parliamentary system to give voices to unrepresented sections of the society. Indian democracy has always been held as the “biggest democracy of the world” that is representative, just and...