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Tone down rhetoric and handle land-related matters with sobriety

Demands for land ownership and, to a lesser extent, land use have fuelled wars across generations around the world.

 The Middle East crisis, pitting the Israelis against the Palestinians, is only the most visible. Closer to home, the sporadic communal violence witnessed in many parts of the country has usually been rooted in the fight for land.

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