Meera says it is just chance that most people live on plains — people settle anywhere, and the…

Why

Meera is treating where people live as random, but settlement patterns follow the land very closely. Plains are large stretches of flat, often very fertile ground, usually built up over centuries by rivers. That flatness and fertility make three things easy at once: growing food, building roads and railways, and moving goods to trade. A place where all three are easy naturally draws more and more people over time. Test it: look at where India's biggest cities sit — the great majority are on plains, especially the river plains of the north, not scattered evenly across mountains, plateaus, and plains alike. Her brother is right: the shape and fertility of the land strongly shape where people settle — the crowding of people onto plains is a result of what plains offer, not chance.