The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.The Grasshopper thinks that the ant is 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.
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Now here goes the Indian version of the story.
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.The Grasshopper thinks that the ant is fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter.The ant is warm and well fed.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,Zee show up to provide the pictures of shivering grasshopper next to video of the ants in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this poor grasshopper allowed to suffer so much.
Politicians stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house.Also they go on fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be shifted to warmer climates during winter.
Mayawathi states this in an injustice done on minorities.
The internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper.
AAP in Delhi immediately passes a law preventing ants from working hard in the heat so long so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Railway minister 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 Grasshopper Act"(POTAGA)
The Education minister 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,its home is confiscated by government and handed over to grosshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV,BBC,CNN.
The politician calls it a "A triumph of Justice"
AAp calls it s "Revolutionary Resurgence of Downtrodden.
Many years later....
The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a muti billon dollar company in silicon valley,
100s of grasshopper still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India.
And as a result of losing lot of hard working ants and feeding grasshoppers India is still a developing country!!!!!
P.S .I have no idea whose creative mind this has come out from,but this piece is good and so thought of sharing in IL
Ants and Gross hopper - Indian version of story
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