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b) This is just humor in it's original form. Please do not start a \\\\\\\"PRO-INDIA/CANADA BASHING\\\\\\\" topic based on this. This part of the disclaimer is especially for those, who are still searching for their sense of humor.

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THE STORY OF THE ANT & THE GRASSHOPPER


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,



*********** THE 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, IBN and other cable networks in India show pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

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.

Mayawati states this as `injustice' meted out to minorities.

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 government passes the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the next winter season.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational nstitutions & 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 '

Many years later....**

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in the Silicon Valley . Thousands of grasshoppers still die of starvation

Despite reservations for jobs and promotions everywhere in India,

AND

As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country.



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