The aam aadmi does not exist. The aam aadmi is a myth, a big lie and a gigantic con trick to hide the misdeeds and crimes of the civil servants and politicians. Is there anyone who wants to be an aam aadmi? I f you ask the most helpless, hopeless beggar I am sure he will aspire to be a 'khas' aadmi. Our first Prime Minister, Nehru was an Oxbridge trained barrister. Surely he would have known that in western countries all children must go to school till the age of 16 years. He was a socialist close to Soviet Union yet he failed to notice that Cuba and the USSR had universal education and health care. His cabinet was packed with scholars yet 60% of the population stayed illiterate. It was the tremendous determination and sacrifice of our parents that ensured that we got quality education. Today even poor people understand the value of a good education especially in 'english medium' schools. The explosion of private, fee paying schools means that children now have access to education that was so far denied to them. This is scary for the politicians and civil servants who fear that an educated populace will ask embarassing questions and refuse to be sacrificial sheep called the aam aadmi. So they have changed tack. They are now attacking english as a language of our colonial masters and passing laws which ban the teaching of english till the upper classes in school and make regional languages compulsory. Jyoti Basu, a barrister, did this in Bengal as did Lalu, in Bihar. Karnataka which is the centre of India's software boom has just passed a similar law. The result is an army of graduates who are poor in English and are unemployable. They can only get jobs as teachers in government schools or as clerks. These millions are grateful for the scraps that politicians throw at them and will resist any reforms that upsets the present system. This army of beggars is known as aam aadmi and will never ever be allowed to become khas.