Swaraj and Lokniti (State and Politics)
Description:... Around sixty years ago, India’s countryside watched a frail man in loin cloth walking from village to village, appealing for land for the poor. “The earth is the Lord’s” was his refrain. “Land, like air and water, belongs to the Lord and is His gift to all His children, and should therefore be shared in common”, he was telling the people, appealing to the landowners to part with a part of their land, and they were responding enthusiastically—the rich and the poor feeling themselves blessed for getting an opportunity to participate in this unique ‘Yajna’. His words, overflowing with love and compassion, could just not be resisted. The whole world watched in amazement this unbelievable spectacle—‘India’s social miracle’ being brought about by this ‘Saint on the march’. The land problem, identified by economists as the most urgent and the most complex problem of Asia, was being tackled through a novel experiment in psychosocial engineering.
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