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..... ......... ....
