OLD VERSION.....
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long building his
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 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 summer
long, building his
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 and calls for a
Nepal Bandh to
protest this 'Soshan'.
Kantipur, Image and Nepal 1 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 nation is stunned by the
sharp contrast. How
can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to
suffer so?
The Civil Society steps in and stages a
demonstration in front of the
ant's house and a concerned group goes on a fast
along with other
grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be
relocated to warmer climates
during winter.
Amnesty International and Ban ki Moon, the eighth
Secretary General of
the UN, criticizes the Nepali 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).
Immediately laws are tabled to prevent Ants from
working hard in the
heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among
ants and
grasshoppers. Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts
the Prevention of
Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with
effect from the
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 handed over to the grasshopper in a
ceremony covered by
all TV and media.
Everyone hails it as "a triumph of justice and
revolutionary resurgence
of the downtrodden". Ban ki Moon invites the
grasshopper to address the
UN General Assembly.
Many years later...
The ant having lost everything has since migrated to
the US in despair and set up a multi billion dollar company in silicon
valley. As for the grasshopper well thousands of grasshoppers continue
to die of starvation...
