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 loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers India is still a developing country...... Can any one dare to bring India out of this clutches...
nenju porukuthilai intha nilaiketa manitharai ninaithu vital.
solladi shiva shakthi nila sumayena vazhnthidal purihuvayo...
valamai tharayo intha manilam payanura vazhvatharke....
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ANTS ARE ALWAYS HARDWORKERS.HOW MANY TORTURE YOU GIVE THEY NEVER CHANGE THEIR ATTITUDE.IF YOU CRUSH SANDAL IT WILL GIVE ALWAYS THE BEAUTIFUL FRAGRANCE.AMMA
so typical of a view held by most IT people!most of us think we are somehow special and more deserving than the others isnt it? well,the truth is more complex than that buddy...may be we are the grasshoppers eating away lazily!!:P
Mmm... story is good. But the analogy seems to be reverse. Actually, grasshoppers became more cunning, and with the help of their appearance and size, they could intimidate ants and started snatching the hard earned food of ants. They started controlling whatever the food the poor ants gathered. They became fat, leaving ants still lean, and just giving them whatever is sufficient to keep them alive so that they can produce more for the fatty grasshoppers. Now, dear Lakshmi, you decide who are ants and grasshoppers, and whether Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar, etc are fighting for ants or grasshoppers. Yeah - CNN, BBC, etc are still giving more coverage to fatty grasshoppers.
And yes, when the count of fatty grasshoppers is lesser than the count of lean ants, India will be called a backward country! Numbers count anyway.
Regards - Ravi Thota
Hmm... but when did anyone realise that the ant was supposed to do only his dharma... without expecting any result....
Only when people get exploited, such situations arise
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