India is still a developing country

An Old Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its
house andlaying up supplies for the winter..

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances
& plays thesummer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has
no food orshelter 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?

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’ done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian
Government fornot upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support
to theGrasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting
Peace for promptsupport as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .

Opposition MPs stage a walkout.

Left parties call for ‘Bengal Bandh’
inWest 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 andGrasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian
RailwayTrains, 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
EducationalInstitutions & 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 Governmentand 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 somewherein India,
...AND

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

we move towards a Socially just, Environmentally sustaining and Spiritually
fulfilling human kind.