Old Version ...........
The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool. He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.
Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
The moral to the story being: BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF!
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New Indian Version . . .(sad but true)
The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool. He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.
Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.
The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and fed, while others are cold and starving!
All news channels show up to provide pictures of shivering grasshoppers, next to a video of an ant in his comfortable home, with a table filled with food. The country is stunned by the sharp contrast! How can this be, that in a socialist and democratic country, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer this way?
some active and sensitive organisations and parties stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news stations film the group singing "We Shall Overcome".
Some NGO''s come forward to help grasshopers and promised them to "continue the fight" for grasshoppers, everywhere!
Some Political parties of opposite front said, that the ant has gotten rich, off the back of the poor grasshopper! and due to bad government policies.
The ant is fined for failing to hire the proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his house is confiscated by the government.
Vam Jethmalani gets her law firm to represent the grasshopper, in a defamation suit against the ant.
The case is tried in the court, with a jury comprised of unemployed welfare recipients.
finally !! The ant loses the case!
The story ends, as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food, while the government house he lives in (which happens to be the ant's old house) crumbles around him, due to lack of maintenance! The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is now a active member of one big political party and soon going to fight for Parliamentary Elections.
The moral of the story I leave on you .... ................... Suggest it ???
