India lingers as a developing country

The assiduous ants toiled hard,

in withering heat, entire summer

punctiliously built a unique home,

laying up supplies for the winter

 

The grasshoppers debated this,

                                     assumed them stupid and fool

subtly swayed d' summer away

no harrying took easy and cool

 

Winter arrived in its time with a

biting cold and an icing weather

ants felt warm and also well-fed

hoppers had no food, no shelter

 

Likely to die out in d' bitter cold,

resolved to call one press meet

           d' shivering guys' leader argued,

urged to know d' ploy behind it

 

How come the ants be allowed,

to be amiably warm and well-fed

while others frozen and starved,

for the forsaken chunk, no regard

 

News channels must telecast,

scene of the shivering hoppers

next d' ants in their cozy home

table-full of foods for d' winter

 

Stunned by the sharp contrast

d' world just not able to imagine

poor hoppers, allowed to suffer,

how one can tolerate the scene

 

Arundhati Roy to demonstrate,

right in front of the snug anthill

Medha Patkar's indefinite fast

along with the hoppers, a drill

 

Demands to relocate d' hoppers

to warmer climates during winter

one section enjoys a secure stay,

other gets neglected and suffer

 

Minorities on purpose oppressed,

Mayawati affirmed injustice done

sought support for the hoppers,

     internet flooded in online petitions

 

Kerala CPM passed a stringent law,

barred ants working hard in d' heat

 to bring about equality of poverty,

ants disentitled to get all d' credit

 

Indian Railway decided to allocate,

one free coach to d' Grasshoppers

long distance Jammu-Allepy express

be aptly named d' Grasshopper Rath'

 

Law Committee drafted POCAGA to

prevent cruelty against grasshoppers

the stringent act to be put into effect,

from the beginning of d' next winter

 

A special quota was created for them,

in Govt. jobs, Educational Institutions 

if ever fail to comply with d' POCAGA,

ants had to pay a heavy penalty sum 

 

If unable to pay the retroactive taxes,

home, confiscated by d' administration

allotted to Grasshoppers in a ceremony

covered by NDTV, Times Now, and CNN

 

Rly Minister calls it a Socialistic Justice,

Arundhati Roy names Triumphant action

press, parties, groups satisfied their ego,

CPM, a resurgence of the downtrodden 

 

D' ants lastly migrated to d' US to set up,

a multi-billion dollar deal in Silicon Valley

lakhs of grasshoppers die of starvation,

despite d' politics, reservations, all silly 

 

To fetch vote tax money spent to buy

food, perks for d' hoppers, all mystery

     hard-working ants got fade up & left,

India lingers as a developing country