Apropos the book review "Whose land is it, anyway?" (May 23), the name of the book The Price of Land: Acquisition, Conflict, Consequence is quite interesting, and reminds me of the time I flew with American town planner and professor Lyues Lyubka in 1977 from Mumbai to Vadodara. Looking down from the aircraft window, he said, "The small patches of land are so small that tilling it with tractors will be very uneconomical. Your agriculture-dependent country should have big farms. Unfortunately, the long chain of family inheritance has reduced them to small economical holdings." Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri gave India the slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan", envisioning India's self-reliance in defence and agriculture. Again, Indira Gandhi brought land reforms with the motto "land belongs to those who till". Have our administrators acted in the right spirit?
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