Acknowledgement : I co-wrote this piece with Aditi Shirpurkar. She owns this piece as much as I own it. However, we both have agreed on making this content open to public for reproducing, so long as due credit is given to the authors. I also acknowledge the valuable inputs of Swaraj Barooah. This piece was first published here . I also acknowledge that this piece was made possible only because of the students who came forward voluntarily to participate in the survey on such a short notice - it is for them and them only that this piece could be published on time, and go on to spark a debate on whom actually the copyright law is serving. Individually, each of us have played a little role; together, we made this happen! ____________ We, humans, love stories; so much so that we built our whole social, cultural, and economic structures around fictional stories. The story of democracy, the story of justice, the story of nation-states, and the list keeps growing. We can’t touch ‘democracy’, w