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the 'Fist' & the 'Pacifist'
Though my soul may set in darkness, it shall rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night.
Friday, April 23, 2004
Watched a news feature on Landless Laborers in Harayana, last night on the telly. There are villages, where 2% of the people own a 100% of the land. Land reforms are obviously, non-existent.

Landless laborers (whole families) are involved in the entire process, from sowing the seeds to the final harvesting. To use a Management expression, they provide end-to-end solutions, but the returns they get from the landlords are on an average only one-eighth of the produce value!

The urban-rural contradiction, with allusions of poverty in villages and prosperity in the cities, is often rather misleading. What do we really own? Is the desire for ownership, moral, ethical and justified?

Life for Rent, and often, the only thing we own, is an entry on blogspot.

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