Around sixty years ago, Indiaâs countryside watched a frail man in loin cloth walking from village to village, appealing for land for the poor. âThe earth is the Lordâsâ was his refrain. âLand, like air and water, belongs to the Lord and is His gift to all His children, and should therefore be shared in commonâ, he was telling the people, appealing to the landowners to part with a part of their land, and they were responding enthusiasticallyâthe rich and the poor feeling themselves blessed for getting an opportunity to participate in this unique âYajnaâ. His words, overflowing with love and compassion, could just not be resisted. The whole world watched in amazement this unbelievable spectacleââIndiaâs social miracleâ being brought about by this âSaint on the marchâ. 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.