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Transcript of The Ant vs Grasshopper
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The Ant V/s The Grasshopper
The original traditional story withthe traditional Moral:
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all
summer building its house and laying up
supplies for the winter.
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The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and
laughs, & dances & plays the summer
away.
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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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The ' INDIAN ' version of the Story
in a present scenario:
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all
summer building its house and laying up
supplies for the winter.
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The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and
laughs & dances & plays the summer
away.
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Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper
sees that the Ant is warm and well fed in
its house.
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He calls a press conference and demands to
know why Ants should be allowed to be
warm and well fed while others are cold
and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN, Z-News
all show up to provide vivid and shocking
pictures of the shivering Grasshopper nextto a video of the Ant in his comfortable
home with a table filled with food.
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The world is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How is it fair that this poor Grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?
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Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in
front of the Ant's house.
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Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with
other Grasshoppers demanding that
Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer
climates during winter.
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Amnesty International and Koffi Annan
criticise the Indian Government for not
upholding the fundamental rights of the
Grasshopper.
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The Internet is flooded with online petitionsseeking support to the Grasshopper
(many promising everlasting peace andtrue love and salary raises for promptsupport, as against terribly bad luck fornon-compliance ). Chain Mails abound insupport of the Grasshopper.
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Opposition MPs stage a walkout in the
Parliament of India in protest.
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Left parties call for 'Bharat Bandh' in West
Bengal and Kerala demanding a judicial
enquiry in the matter.
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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.
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Lalu Prasad allocates one free rail coach to
Grasshoppers on a new train - aptly
named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
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Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the
'Prevention of Terrorism Against
Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]', with effect
from the beginning of the winter.
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Arjun Singh makes 'special reservation' for
Grasshoppers in all educational
institutions and Government services.
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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, Z-TV etc
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Arundhati Roy calls it 'a triumph of justice'.
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Lalu calls it a victory of 'socialistic justice'.
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CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence
of the Downtrodden '
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Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to
address the UN General Assembly.
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Indians read about all these happenings in
their daily newspapers and telecasts
without emotion or reaction, and Life goes
on as usual in India ...
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Many years later
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The Ant has since migrated to the US and
set up a multi-billion dollar company in
Silicon Valley. With a comfortable 12
bedroom house with a carpool and private
airstrip, it has no intentions of returning to
India..
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Hundreds of Grasshoppers still die of
starvation in India despite 'reservations'
and despite all kinds of perks and
privileges supposedly doled out by the
Govt.
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As a result of losing most of our hard-
working Ants to Europe, USA and Middle
East, and due to our continuous feeding
and supporting such useless Leeches &
Grasshoppers ...
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India still remains a Developing Country