I just got this email and it made me think about Nepal's present scenario. Instead of working for New Nepal, we all are busy demanding this or that. Many demands are surely urgently needs to be addressed but many……. God Knows. People come to street protesting road accident instead of letting police to do it's job. Property worth millions are destroyed, roads are turned to black (if pitched one then more black) with burning tires, many injured or even death. This is just a small example, you know rest. Please read below and give thought a chance.
OLD 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 ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
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 and calls for a Nepal Bandh to protest this 'Soshan'. Kantipur, Image and Nepal 1 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 nation is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? The Civil Society steps in and stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house and a concerned group goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Ban ki Moon, the eighth Secretary General of the UN, criticizes the Nepali 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). Immediately laws are tabled to prevent 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. 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 all TV and media. Everyone hails it as "a triumph of justice and revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden". Ban ki Moon invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many years later... The ant having lost everything has since migrated to the US in despair and set up a multi billion dollar company in Silicon Valley. As for the grasshopper well thousands of grasshoppers continue to die of starvation…..
The morale is, if we don't act sensibly now, may be our country might be full of such grasshoppers and hardworking people like ants be forced to migrate and Nepal would be doomed. So pelase let's think twice before we act. Many people are relating this story with Nepal's need of democracy and even began questioning democracy, but we believe Democracy is the basic thing for human if he wants to live as human. If there's no democracy, there's no life. Such hard times come and passes as well. Democracy is like a tree, which needs time to grow up as big tree but gives immense fruits when it's ready as well.
3 comments:
I got this email saying look what democracy would do to nepal because Nepal is not ready for democracy. I don't know is this stereotype or reality but we are strong believer in democracy and freedom. I posted this article because i felt many people have begun thinking this way. the euphoria caused by April Uprising is slowly fading because of political parties/government's activities. But we believe this is the phase every democracy has to walk on. We hope this phase would be over soon, and we all will be in democracy. There's no right or wrong time for democracy, it is itself right. So lets unite to save it from failure.
Nice story.. n very hitting one too... Hats off to the one who made it.. I m a believer of democracy so i hope and wish that our condition wont be the same.
this is a really cool story showin both sides. id like to thank the dude who posted this...and....everything else........ its something to think abt
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