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