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's 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'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 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 MP's 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 Grass Hopper 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 of loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers India is still a developing country......
Mera Bharat Mahan
Sincere Regards
Krishna
From India, Madras
4The 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's 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'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 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 MP's 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 Grass Hopper 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 of loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers India is still a developing country......
Mera Bharat Mahan
Sincere Regards
Krishna
From India, Madras
Thats a slap on the face of politicians and so called socialites for their hypocrisy and issue less issues. :D :lol:
Keep up the good work.
Some one has to keep the lamp of Awareness going. In continuation of the ppt on secularism... this one is more subtle and hence hard hitting.
Thanks
From India, Pune
Keep up the good work.
Some one has to keep the lamp of Awareness going. In continuation of the ppt on secularism... this one is more subtle and hence hard hitting.
Thanks
From India, Pune
Its Really Good, but hope u forget about Karunanithi and jayalaitha, Jayalalitha reported to CNN that karunanithi is the only reason for grasshopper’s situation. :wink:
Dear Snow sweety
Both are grass hoppers... depends when they are on which side in the vidhan sabha :roll:
They make us believe they are ants and we vote them back and they metamorphise into grasshoppers... even biologists would die of shock as such transformation.
They just hop from one bribe to another; one vindictiveness to another; one issue less issue to another and we think they are working so hard.
It is really difficult to hop and hop continuously. Thats why you and me are not grass hoppers
:lol:
From India, Pune
Both are grass hoppers... depends when they are on which side in the vidhan sabha :roll:
They make us believe they are ants and we vote them back and they metamorphise into grasshoppers... even biologists would die of shock as such transformation.
They just hop from one bribe to another; one vindictiveness to another; one issue less issue to another and we think they are working so hard.
It is really difficult to hop and hop continuously. Thats why you and me are not grass hoppers
:lol:
From India, Pune
Hi Amul!
its nice to talk with u, ur name is my nick name which my mom n dad use to call me :D
but wht ever it may be this is the statement which she is going to declare right, we know tht both r frm same pond... bt wht to do no other option.... :oops:
its nice to talk with u, ur name is my nick name which my mom n dad use to call me :D
but wht ever it may be this is the statement which she is going to declare right, we know tht both r frm same pond... bt wht to do no other option.... :oops:
Hi My Nickky
We both are also from the same pond. Water is clean, fresh, flowing making us saner... and sloggers like the ant :roll:
Its a pleasure 'meeting' you... more so since we share the same name. (yours is secret and mine is not... for years my class mates would called me "utterly butterly delicious")
Take care and Have fun
Amul
From India, Pune
We both are also from the same pond. Water is clean, fresh, flowing making us saner... and sloggers like the ant :roll:
Its a pleasure 'meeting' you... more so since we share the same name. (yours is secret and mine is not... for years my class mates would called me "utterly butterly delicious")
Take care and Have fun
Amul
From India, Pune
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