Who is the Aam Aadmi ? He is the most important citizen of India, universally useful, participated in every political ideology, is the most favoured by all political parties but at the same time is the most belaboured, long suffering and undefined. The aam aadmi celebrated by RK Lakshman’s cartoons has been seen as the butt of cruel jokes played by  lofty promises of political parties. They turn out later to be just puffs of oratorical smoke which quickly disperses into nothingness ! It is in his name that election manifestoes are made, political parties are created and run. He More >