The ant vs grasshopper
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The story is an allegory about an ant and a grasshopper. The ant works hard all summer to store food for winter, while the grasshopper plays. In winter, the ant is warm and fed, while the grasshopper starves. The story then satirizes how Indian activists and politicians would respond if the grasshopper demanded help, leading the ant to migrate abroad and India remaining undeveloped.
![The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the 'Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]', with effect from the beginning of the winter.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/theantvsgrasshopper-110501081245-phpapp02/85/The-ant-vs-grasshopper-19-320.jpg)
The ant vs grasshopper
- 1. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The original traditional story with the traditional Moral:
- 2. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
- 3. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs, & dances & plays the summer away.
- 4. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
- 5. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The ' INDIAN ' version of the Story – in a present scenario:
- 6. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
- 7. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
- 8. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper sees that the Ant is warm and well fed in its house.
- 9. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper 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 next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
- 10. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How is it fair that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
- 11. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.
- 12. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter.
- 13. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticise the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
- 14. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising everlasting peace and true love and salary raises for prompt support, as against terribly bad luck for non-compliance ). Chain Mails abound in support of the Grasshopper.
- 15. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Opposition MPs stage a walkout in the Parliament of India in protest.
- 16. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Left parties call for 'Bharat Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a judicial enquiry in the matter.
- 17. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper 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.
- 18. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Lalu Prasad allocates one free rail coach to Grasshoppers on a new train - aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
- 19. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the 'Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]', with effect from the beginning of the winter.
- 20. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Arjun Singh makes 'special reservation' for Grasshoppers in all educational institutions and Government services.
- 21. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper 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
- 22. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Arundhati Roy calls it 'a triumph of justice'.
- 23. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Lalu calls it a victory of 'socialistic justice'.
- 24. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
- 25. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
- 26. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Indians read about all these happenings in their daily newspapers and telecasts without emotion or reaction, and Life goes on as usual in India ...
- 27. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper Many years later …
- 28. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper 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..
- 29. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper 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.
- 30. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper 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 ...
- 31. The Ant V/s The Grasshopper India still remains a ‘Developing Country’