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Ant & The Grasshopper
An Old Story:
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.
New
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 fasts 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 Ban
Ki-moon 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.
Railway
minister 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.
Kapil Sibal 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 ---- BARAKHA DATT.
Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of
Justice'.
Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.
CPM calls it the '
Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
Ban Ki-moon 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. However, 100s of Grasshoppers still die of
starvation
despite reservation somewhere in India,
......AND
As
a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the
grasshoppers,
India is still a developing country…!!!