Ant and Grasshopper of Modern India

Came accross this story of Ant and Grasshopper from a friend's email, its nice and tell the truth of modern India:

Ant & Grasshopper ( .... Old 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 is a fool and laughs
and dances and 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.


Ant & Grasshopper ( .... Modern 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.

Star News, NDTV, Aaj Tak, 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 criticizes
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 '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.

Brinda Karat made controversial remarks
accusing Ants of violating labour laws

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...

- As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants
and feeding the
Grasshoppers, India is still a developing country!!!