i want you frends to read this story..
Ant And Grasshoper
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? Arundhat 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 demandinga 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.
PS:-although this shows a poor image of India, but the fact is that it is true. We don't acknowledge hard work of a person, we provide reservation to poor & helpless, this does not make them rich & happy, it rather makes them more lazy & those who are known as hardworking category of people they are denied of many oppourtinities which they deserved. Our politicians try to extract more & more votes by taking sides of poor & lazy. It is not so that reservation is bad but till what extent? 50% in premier academic instutions is that by any way justifiable. pls pass it on if think Indian senario needs to change, hardworking people deserve better than what they are getting now in India
1 comment:
Hey!! was just passing by and saw ur post. Well! great analogy between "ants and grasshoppers" and " rich and poor" of the society and a really nice read but I beg to differ on one basic point .ie the Indian govt. doesn't provide reservation for the "poors". what they actually do is to provide reservation for " socially backward" classes. [eg the 50% reservation for the sc,st and obc and alpha-beta-gamma-deltas]. Now being "socially backward" doesn't necessarily mean that one is poor. [don't believe me? just attend the west bengal joint entrance examination counseling for the "backwards" [henceforth will be addressed as "suckers"] and attend the very same for the higher castes held normally on the very next day and count the number of cars standing outside, each day)
I think reservation shouldn't be provided for anybody. Yes! if they are poor then the govt should help them by providing money for their studies etc, but before that it must be ascertained that they are really poor [not like in West Bengal, where the comparatively richer people of the village hold BPL cards, and those who really need it is depraved of]. I do think its perfectly okay to help them in that way. But reservation in academical institutions has nothing to do with their economic condition. I agree to the statement that the sole intention for such reservation is drawing votes.
However, crime does pay and where usually a higher caste require the allotted 4 years for completion of graduation, they take it a bit longer. Also since the semester GPAs has no reservation, it gets reflected. But now the govt. is even planning foe a reservation in job sector. After all its India where KASAV lives a comfortable life inside the cell whereas the commandos who protect us are thrown out of their shelter.
But one thing for sure, people who doesn't take advantage of this facility can live with their head held high, whereas.... but then who cares??!! :(
All in all : It was a really nice read and good analogy.
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