Ant & Grasshopper

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies forthe winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs
and dances and 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.

MODERN VERSION..................

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summerlong,
building his house and laying up supplies forthe winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and
dances and 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.

BBC, CNN, NDTV 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 tosuffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticizes the Government for not upholding the fundamental rights ofthe grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper.

Opposition MP's stage awalkout.Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengaland Keralademanding a Judicial Enquiry.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Preventionof TerrorismAgainst Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect fromthe beginning of the winter.
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 handedover to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered byBBC,CNN and NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice".