INDIA: Landless Indians take their protest to Delhi

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Updated October 29, 2007 21:03:36

Tens of thousands of landless Indian farmers and indigenous people have arrived in the capital New Delhi as part of their month long march to demand land reform and ownership rights laws. The protestors, most of them from India's poorer castes, say they've been marginalised by India's economic boom.

Presenter: Girish Sawlani
Speakers: Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute of Conflict Management in New Delhi; Chandran Mitra, upper house member of parliament and editor of Pioneer newspaper

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