THE STORY OF INDIA

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.

Indian 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.
NDTV, BBC, 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?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the
Ant's house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with
other Grasshoppers demanding that
Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during
winter . Human Rights group and Koffi Annan criticize
the Indian Government for not upholding the
fundamental rights of the Grasshopper. The Internet is
flooded with online petitions seeking support to the
Grasshopper (many promise Heaven & Everlasting Peace
for prompt support as against the wrath of God for
non-compliance) .

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for
'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a
Judicial Enquiry. CPM in Kerala immediately passes a
law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so
as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and
Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to grasshoppers
on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the
'Grasshopper Rath'.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the '
Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act'
[POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the
winter. Arjun Singh 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 NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.
Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.
CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the
Downtrodden '
Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN
General Assembly.

Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a
multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley, 100s
of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite
reservation somewhere in India,
.
..AND
As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and
feeding the grasshoppers,

India is still a developing country.




© yankandpaste® from an email forward i got last day

A PR Story :-)

Updates from CIC in short
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Permanent Residence

We started processing your application on April 30, 2007.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on your application. The office will contact you concerning this decision.
You entered Canada at the Douglas office on December 18, 2007 and became a Permanent Resident.


Thank God, Canada and CIC and Canadian Visa Office - Buffalo for the accepting us ( me and family ) as PR and the fast processing. I applied as Skilled worker immigrant category on Canadian Visa Office - Buffalo.

A personal Moment ( first B day of my kid )

An year passed very fast, now my kid is turning 1 year ( turned on Aug 3 ). Sharing some moments from life ( the video we played on his BDay )





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Happy Canada Day !!

On June 20, 1868, a proclamation signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck, called upon all Her Majesty's loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada on July 1st.


Happy Canada Day !!
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Dedicated to my ex: roommate

Tonight I Can Write
by Pablo Neruda, translated by W.S. Merwin
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
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The above poem is dedicated to my ex roommate who used to sing this poem at mid nights and interrupt our sleep ( atlast i found that i can even sleep hearing this )

yankandpaste from : http://www.favoritepoem.org/poems/neruda/merwin.html

The first yank and paste :-)

ഞാനവളെ സ്നേഹിച്ചിരുന്നു
ഗാഢമായി തന്നെ
അവള്‍ക്കും അറിയാമായിരുന്നു
പക്ഷേ.......................................
അവളുടെ സാമീപ്യത്തില്‍ ആഹ്ലാദിച്ചിരുന്നു
അതവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു
പക്ഷേ..................................
ഞാനവളെ കൂടുതല്‍ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചിരുന്നു
വളരെ ....വളരെ കൂടുതല്‍
അതവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു
പക്ഷേ...................................
എനിക്കവളേപ്പറ്റി പറയാനേ സമയമുണ്ടായിരുന്നുള്ളു
അവളെ പറ്റി മാത്രം....
അതവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു
പക്ഷേ..................................
'
അവള്‍ എന്റെ പെണ്ണാണെന്ന്‌ ഞാന്‍
എല്ലാവരോടും പറഞ്ഞിരുന്നു
അവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു.
പക്ഷേ......................................
എനിക്ക്‌ നിന്നെ ഇഷ്ടമാണെന്ന്‌....,
അവള്‍ പറയുന്നതും കാത്തു ഞാനിരുന്നിരുന്നു.
അത്‌ അവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു
പക്ഷേ...............................................
അവളുടെ സ്നേഹത്തിനായി
പ്രണയാര്‍ദ്ദമാം ഒരു നോക്കിനായ്‌]
ഞാന്‍ ദാഹിച്ചത്‌, അവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാം
പക്ഷേ.......................................................
എന്റെ ജീവിതത്തിലേക്കവളെ ക്ഷണിക്കാന്
‍സന്നദ്ധനായിരുന്നൂ ഞാനെപ്പൊഴും
അതവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു
പക്ഷേ......................................
മിനിക്കുട്ടി പതിയെ എഴുന്നേറ്റു
എന്താണീ കവിതയില്‍ ...........?
അതവള്‍ക്കുമറിയാമായിരുന്നു
എങ്കിലും അവള്‍ പുസതകമടച്ചു.

From : http://ajaysreesanth.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post_25.html