The Quota Story!

THE OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his
houseand laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant's 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.

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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 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.

BBC, CNN, EURO-NEWS, NDTV, FOX NEWS 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 Koffi Annan criticizes the Government for
notupholding 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.

Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justic
Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General
Assembly...