The Ant vs Grasshopper

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The Ant V/s The Grasshopper

The original traditional story withthe traditional Moral:


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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all

summer building its house and laying up

supplies for the winter.


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The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and

laughs, & dances & plays the summer

away.


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Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed.

The Grasshopper has no food or shelter,

so he dies out in the cold.


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The ' INDIAN ' version of the Story

in a present scenario:


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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all

summer building its house and laying up

supplies for the winter.


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The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and

laughs & dances & plays the summer

away.


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Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper

sees that the Ant is warm and well fed in

its house.


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He calls a press conference and demands to

know why Ants should be allowed to be

warm and well fed while others are cold

and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN, Z-News

all show up to provide vivid and shocking

pictures of the shivering Grasshopper nextto a video of the Ant in his comfortable

home with a table filled with food.


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The world is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How is it fair that this poor Grasshopper is

allowed to suffer so?


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Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in

front of the Ant's house.


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Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with

other Grasshoppers demanding that

Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer

climates during winter.


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Amnesty International and Koffi Annan

criticise the Indian Government for not

upholding the fundamental rights of the

Grasshopper.


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The Internet is flooded with online petitionsseeking support to the Grasshopper

(many promising everlasting peace andtrue love and salary raises for promptsupport, as against terribly bad luck fornon-compliance ). Chain Mails abound insupport of the Grasshopper.


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Opposition MPs stage a walkout in the

Parliament of India in protest.


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Left parties call for 'Bharat Bandh' in West

Bengal and Kerala demanding a judicial

enquiry in the matter.


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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.


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Lalu Prasad allocates one free rail coach to

Grasshoppers on a new train - aptly

named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.


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Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the

'Prevention of Terrorism Against

Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]', with effect

from the beginning of the winter.


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Arjun Singh makes 'special reservation' for

Grasshoppers in all educational

institutions and Government services.


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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, Z-TV etc


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Arundhati Roy calls it 'a triumph of justice'.


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Lalu calls it a victory of 'socialistic justice'.


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CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence

of the Downtrodden '


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Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to

address the UN General Assembly.


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Indians read about all these happenings in

their daily newspapers and telecasts

without emotion or reaction, and Life goes

on as usual in India ...


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Many years later


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The Ant has since migrated to the US and

set up a multi-billion dollar company in

Silicon Valley. With a comfortable 12

bedroom house with a carpool and private

airstrip, it has no intentions of returning to

India..


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Hundreds of Grasshoppers still die of

starvation in India despite 'reservations'

and despite all kinds of perks and

privileges supposedly doled out by the

Govt.


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As a result of losing most of our hard-

working Ants to Europe, USA and Middle

East, and due to our continuous feeding

and supporting such useless Leeches &

Grasshoppers ...


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India still remains a Developing Country

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