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Story or Reality!!
by sizzlingmachine on Jul 16, 2007 07:41 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

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 MPs stage a walk out. 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 grasshopper

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  RE:Story or Reality!!
by sizzlingmachine on Jul 16, 2007 07:41 PM   Permalink
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
Institutions & 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 ?20AC?.

As a result loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the
grasshoppers,

India is still a developing country.....


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  RE:Story or Reality!!
by vipankumar dogra on Jul 17, 2007 01:59 AM   Permalink
wonderful.

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by lets think on Jul 17, 2007 09:26 AM   Permalink
wow...wonderfull story...or reality !
u shud get it published

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by Neutral on Jul 17, 2007 09:39 AM   Permalink
Wonderful post...
Really beautiful and logical.

Keep up this good work..

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by sizzlingmachine on Jul 17, 2007 11:54 AM   Permalink
But guys Im xtreamely sry. This is not created by me. I received a mail from my frdz. And I thought it deserves to be posted in this forum.
Regards

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