Ant And Grasshoper
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is 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.
*Indian Version*
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its 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?
Arundhat 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.
Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.
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 walkout.
Left parties call for ' Bengal 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 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, it's 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 ,
AND
As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers,
India is still a developing country.
PS:-
although this shows a poor image of India, but the fact is that it is true. We don't acknowledge hard work of a person, we provide reservation to poor & helpless, this does not make them rich & happy, it rather makes them more lazy & those who are known as hardworking category of people they are denied of many oppourtinities which they deserved. Our politicians try to extract more & more votes by taking sides of poor & lazy. It is not so that reservation is bad but till what extent? 50% in premier academic instutions is that by any way justifiable. pls pass it on if think Indian senario needs to change, hardworking people deserve better than what they are getting now in India.
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Regards,
Avinash Ekka
B.A.LL.B(Hons.)
National Law Institute University
Bhopal
