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.
NEPALI 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.
AB News, Kantipur, 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.
Madhesi goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .
Amnesty International 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. Left parties call for ‘Nepal Bandh’ demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
Singhadurbar immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ‘ Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act’ [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.
Baburam Bhattarai 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 NTV.
Madhesi calls it ‘ A Triumph of Justice’.
UML calls it ‘Socialistic Justice’.
Maoists calls it the ‘Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden ‘
Many years later…
The Ant has since migrated to the US set up a multi-billion dollar company.
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in Nepal,
..AND
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.
. As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers,
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Nepal is still a developing country !!!
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