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RE:RE:Remain United !!
by roopa balasubramanian on Jul 06, 2007 11:32 AM

Reading the article on PMO's message ( Dr. Manmohan Singh's message) I remembered an E.Mail forward to me from a freind of mine:
INCREDIBLE INDIA !!!


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 (excellent)

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 fu

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