ANT & GRASSHOPPER

OLD VERSION...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his 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.

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his 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 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 it 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.
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 Members of Parliament (MPs) stage a walkout.Left parties call for
"Bharat 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 the GrassHopper in educational
Insititutions & in Govt Services. The ant is fined for failing to comply
with POTAGA
and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his 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 ...

As a result losing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers,
India is still a developing
country......