The Ant and the Grasshopper

Brilliant story of what is wrong with India!

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?

Arundhat
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 and set up a multi-billion dollar company in
Silicon Valley, 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..... ......... ....

The four laws of projects

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Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan.But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted.

Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye.Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields. As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan. The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety to create the coloured patterns between planting and harvesting in September.
The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square metres of paddy fields.From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.
Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of meetings of the village committee. Closer to the image, the careful placement of thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen. The different varieties of rice plant grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.
In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year. But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life. The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Tokyo, where the tradition began in 1993.
The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horsebacks, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall. Napoleon on horseback can be seen from the skies, created by precision planting and months of planning between villagers and farmers in Inkadate. A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants; the color's created by using different varieties, in Inakadate in Japan. More than 150,000 visitors come to Inakadate, where just 8,700 people live, every summer to see the extraordinary murals. Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields. Another famous rice paddy art venue is in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture. This year's design shows the fictional 16th-century samurai warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives feature in television series Tenchijin. Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa, Japan. And over the past few years, other villages have joined in with the plant designs. Various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan this year, including designs of deer dancers.

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Greetings from Aspiring Minds!
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Walk-in Assessment on Thursday , 25th February and Interviews on 03rd March. Only students shortlisted according to assessment on 25th February will be invited for interview on 03rd March. Offers will be made immediately.


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