India is still a Developing Country :: The Ant & The Grasshopper Funda
Nitin Jain
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house
and laying up
supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food
or shelter so he
dies out in the cold.
Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house
and laying up supplies for
the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the
summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the Ant
should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and
starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper
next to a video of
the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this
poor Grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.
Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding
that Grasshoppers be relocated
to warmer climates during winter .
Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.
Amnesty International and Koffi Annan
criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the
fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the
Grasshopper (many
promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against
the wrath
of God for non-compliance) .
Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in
West Bengal and
Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working
hard in the heat so as to
bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian
Railway Trains, aptly named as
the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism
Against Grasshoppers
Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.
Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation' for Grasshoppers in Educational
Institutions & in
Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing
left to pay his retroactive
taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the
Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.
Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.
Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice'.
CPM calls it the 'Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the US set up a multi-billion dollar
company in Silicon
Valley,
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation
somewhere in India,
..AND
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As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the
grasshoppers,
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India is still a developing country !!!
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Untouchability is a sin. So stay in touch.
Nitin Jain