There is always something uncannily exciting about first times, whether it is something as unpleasant as your first drive alone (which found me, fraught with nerves, just about managing to start the car correctly) or something as pleasant as your first social, dressed up in an glamorous lace dress which two years later, looks similar to a costume out of Sound of Music with its misplaced ruffles. However none of these can compare to the feverishness of voting for the first time.

All set for a youth-centered election, it wouldn’t be outrageous if the obvious choice was Rahul Gandhi — the poster boy for youth in politics and scion of India’s oldest blue-blooded political party — the Congress. Unclear about his political ambitions, this Harvard bred royalty joined politics around ten years ago and is now set to be the prime ministerial candidate of the Congress. Unfortunately for him, the change that people wish to witness is often synonymous with voting the Congress out of power.