[Assam] The Ant and the Grasshooper!!

Tue Aug 7 06:01:18 PDT 2007

Friends, the following topic is interested and most worthy.today I happen to visit my old uniformed friend and he had given me the print out.Those who live away from India will better understand it:-

  Regards.
  Dr.Bikash Kumar Das.
  Bangalore/India.

  THE ANT AND THE GRASS HOOPER!!!
  Logic: -

  The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its houses and lying up supplies for the winter.The Grass Hooper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The Grass Hooper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold!

  Modern Version: -

  The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its houses and lying up supplies for the winter. The Grass Hooper thinks the Ant is fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter: - the shivering Grass Hooper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are in cold and shivering!

  NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grass Hooper 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 Grasshooper is allowed to suffer so?

  Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ants house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoopers demanding that Grasshooper be relocated to warmer climate during winter.

  Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Govt. for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshooper!

  The internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshooper( 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 Judical Inquiry!!

  CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoopers.

  Lallo Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoopers on all Indian Railways trains,aptly named as the Grasshooper Rath!!

  Finally the judicial committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoopers Act or POTGA, with effect from the beginning of the winter.

  Arjun Singh sets up special reservation for grasshoopers in Educational Institutions & Govt services!!

  The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,has his home confiscated by the Govt and handed over to the Grasshoopers in a ceremony covered by NDTV!!

  Arundhati Roy calls it a triumph of Justice, Lallu calls it Socialistic Justice!! CPM calls it the Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtodden. 

  Koffi Annan invites the Grasshooper 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 the silicon valley

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  100s of Grasshoopers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India
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  As a result of loosing of hard working Ants and feeding the Grasshoopers, INDIA IS STILL A DEVELOPING COUNTRY!!!

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