Ant & Grasshopper

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summerbuilding its house and laying up supplies for thewinter.


The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs &dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. TheGrasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out inthe cold.


Modern Nepali Version

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summerbuilding its house and laying up supplies for thewinter.


The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs &dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a pressconference and demands to know why the Ant should beallowed to be warm and well fed while others are coldand starving.


Nepal Tv, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of theshivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant inhis comfortable home with a table filled with food.


The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How canthis be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed tosuffer so?


YCL stages a demonstration in front of theAnt's house.


Nagrik Samaj goes on a fast along with otherGrasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocatedto warmer climates during winter.


Amnesty International and Koffi Annancriticizes the Nepalese Government for not upholding thefundamental rights of the Grasshopper.


The Internet is flooded with online petitionsseeking support to the Grasshopper (many promisingHeaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support asagainst the wrath of God for non-compliance) .


Opposition MPs stage a walkout.Upendra Yadav call for "Nepal Bandh"
Maobadi in immediately passes a law preventing Antsfrom working hard in the heat so as to bring aboutequality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.


Baburam allocates one free coach

to Grasshoppers on all NepaliBuses aptly named as the'Grasshopper Rath' .
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the 'Preventionof Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], witheffect from the beginning of the winter.


Madav Nepalmakes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers inEducational 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 YCL and handedover to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by Nepal Tv.


Prachand calls it 'A Triumph of Justice'.


YCL calls it 'Socialistic Justice'.


Maobadi calls it the 'Revolutionary Resurgence of theDowntrodden'
UN Secretary General invites the Grasshopper toaddress the UN General Assembly.

Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the USand set up a multi-billion dollar company in SiliconValley

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despitereservation somewhere in Nepal.