Arivukanru once asked to write difference between classic version and Modern version.....
He wrote like this....
CLASSIC VERSION...
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and 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.
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MODERN VERSION...
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a
fool and laughs and dances and 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.
BBC, CNN, NDTV 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. Amnesty
International and Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. criticizes the Government for not upholding
the fundamental rights of the grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the
grasshopper. Opposition MP's stage a walkout. Left parties call for
"Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against
Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter.
The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing
left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by
BBC,CNN and NDTV.
Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice".
