Tuesday, May 13, 2008

 

Ant and grasshopper



An interesting email forward

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 is 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 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.

Nepal Tv, 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?
YCL stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house. Nagrik Samaj goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticizes the Nepalese 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 MPs stage a walkout. Upendra Yadav call for 'Nepal Bandh' Maobadi in immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers. Baburam allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Nepali Buses 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. Madav Nepal makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & 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 YCL and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by Nepal Tv. Prachand calls it 'A Triumph of Justice'. YCL calls it 'Socialistic Justice'.
Maobadi calls it the 'Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden' UN Secretary General 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 Nepal.



Comments:



I saw this email before as well but cant not really grasp the meaning of it ? What doeas it mean.
Nice flow,amd a good story but if you are a nepali and happen to know things,and try to correlate ,deosnt make sense at all.
Does it ?

 
That is true.. although I don't have in depth knowledge about the current political scenario but I could almost figure out half of its meaning.. it certainly seemed fascinating and that's the reason I posted it so that others can derive some meaning out of it and discuss.. if anybody could summarize it, that would be great
cheers

 
Yes, Prad this what current scenario of Nepal. Everyone(having Nepali Heart)expects there is no such things happens to the Ant to make him migrate..that is what happening..its terrific to Future of Nepal.

 
No still doesnt make sense to me!

 
POOR INDIAN IMITATION...CAN WE EVER COME UP WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL. DO WE ALWAYS NEED TO FOLLOW WHAT INDIAN DOES? WHERE IS OUR CREATIVITY ? COPY WELL NEXT TIME ..ANYWAYS ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!

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An Old Story:

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 is 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.


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 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 MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for ' Bengal 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 Grasshoppers in Educational
Institutions & 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 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,


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..AND




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

 
why don't you come up with something original if you want our opinion.

 
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Thank you for your time!





Best,



Michael Landers
Director - Culture Crossing
Email: michael@culturecrossing.net
www.culturecrossing.net

 
That's what we should stop immediately- seeing only the half picture. Why can't we consider that all ants need not be a hard worker and all grasshopers need be a lazy creature ? Aren't there any thug ants and a hardworking grasshopers to consider ? To perfectly judge the situation presented by Pradeep jee, we must consider the whole picture. the situation in Nepal is not a fairy tale any more. It serioulsy needs active and thoughtful helping hands. When are we to think about that?

 
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Its really nice story. I like the ideas behind it. I don't mind if it is copied from somewhere, but it is the lesson for each and every nepalese that happening in the country. some people work hard and make stuff for themselves but another ribel arise and loots everything. I , of course, suppost you who ever you published it. Great effort!!!! 10 points.

 
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I was born and still live in Los Angeles, California, United States. We have excessive amounts of US-born grasshoppers here already. That is why welfare, medicare, and social security are going bankrupt.

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yeah it's a true state of the nation....I like the way Pradeep compared two situation.....and the last line holds the entire pain of NEPAL "The Ant since migrated......................somewhere in NEPAL."

 
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