One of the most distasteful aspects of social life, in my (dis)taste, concerns brothers and sisters taking recourse to legal means for the division, distribution, or acquisition of property, wealth, and land. Consider, for example, a 'typical' Indian family with 2 sisters and 3 brothers whose parents draw up a 'will' dividing the family land and property among them.

What does the act of drawing up such a legal document reveal? Is it not the truth that deep down under their skins the brothers and the sisters suspect one another of being thieves, crooks, or robbers, craftily waiting to take advantage of those among themselves who are not watching out?

In this connection, the Indian mystic Ramakrishna Paramahangsa once wrote :

'God laughs when two brothers draw a dividing line on their farmland and say : 'This side is mine, that side is yours''.