KILL THE ANT.....REAR THE GRASSSHOPPER!

NOTIFICATION - i have not composed this piece of article. In light of the recent 'quota system' thought of by the brains in the Indian Government, this is an awesome article i came across! I would call posting it here as 'Appreciative Plagiarism'!! :-)

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CLASSICAL 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 that 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'.

The Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter.

Finally, 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 ...
As a result of losing a lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country..... .

Bangalore tending to Kolkata?

One more dispute....one more Bandh! Total city-shutdown....school, colleges & even MNCs shut down for the day.

Seems familiar to Calcuttans? Not just Calcutta anymore......'cos this is happening right here in namma Bengaluru!!

Peeved at not getting the demanded quota of Cauvery water from the tribunal, and salt upon injury added by Mr Karunanidhi managing to secure a relatively favorable decision for arch-rivals (at least w.r.t. the cauvery issue) TN....the pro-Kannad organizations have decided to shut the city down for 12 staright hours to protest this injustice!!

What have the Pro-Kannad organisations decided upon doing?

• Decided to stop all vehicular traffic on all major roads from 0600-1800 hrs....fetching discomfort to the Bangalorean junta will teach the tribunal a lesson!
• Down all shutters....close all shops.....shut down all business - When they lose money...they will know how it feels! (Still undecide as to who the 'they' being referred to is......)
• Ban all Tamil channesl of the cable TV network (Now theTamilians will know what it is to mess with us!!!)
• Not enough. Let's ban all Non-Kannad channels from the cable TV network on the bandh day (Now even the rest of the world will know what it is to mess with us!!)
• Shout slogans against the govt for allowing the Tribunal to give such a verdict against them (so what if none of the govts in the last 17 years couyld not get a decision in favor of themselves!!)
• Shut down the pulse of the city!

So how is Bangalore dealing with this?
Very well i must say....and like Calcuttans, even Bangaloreans have learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth and take full advantage of a weekday off! Thus is their planning -

• Residents of nearby places like Chennai, Hydbd & Cochin had fled back home on fri evenig, ths ensuring a 3-day stay at home....
• B'loreans thronged the dvd parlors, stocking up on movie fare to last through the day. My roomies & i hve picked up Munich, The Prestige, Aastha & Divorzio all'Italiana to last us thru the day....
• The liquor shops also saw a heavier than usual traffice, with pppl stocking up on the spirit-quotient too. I myself spent 20 mins standing at the queue at Foodworld to pay fot the beers that i had picked up (including the new Haywards Stout)......come'on guyz - where else do u get to pay for booze by Sodexho coupons?!
• Maggi...the life-saver....went fast off the shelf for bachelors like us. A search for the new Rice Maagi yielded no results! :-(
• All TN registerd vehicles were hidden out of sight (come'on....remember)
• Friends were called over on sunday evening to partake of the beer and the bakar!!
• Last heard all Non-kannad states (including Tamilians) would be leading their usual lives, and even getting to watch all their TV channels on the Cable Tv network
• As to how life_during_bandh was......gotta wait till we spend it.

Still wondering though....who are they trying to register their protest with?