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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.

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. Amnesty
International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian 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). Opposition MP's stage a walkout.Left
parties call for "Bharat 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 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 Grass Hopper in educational
Insititutions & in Govt Services.

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
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 somewhere in India