e-Nagar

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

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The difference between male and female friendship: A woman stayed out all night and the next day told her husband that she slept over at a friend’s house. He called his wife’s ten best friends and not one of them knew a thing about it. On the other hand, a man stayed out all night and the next day told his wife that he slept over at a friend’s house. She called her husband’s ten best friends and eight of them verified that he really did sleep over at their house while the other two claimed he was still there!

A little boy went up to his father and asked, “Dad, where did all of my intelligence come from?” His father replied, “Well, son, you must have gotten it from your mother, because I still have mine.”

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Anuj’s teacher sent a note home to his Mother saying, “Anuj seems to be a very bright boy, but spends too much of his time thinking about girls.”
The Mother wrote back the next day, “If you find a solution, please advise. I have the same problem with his Father.”

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 Koffi Annan 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.

Bush calls it “A Triumph of justice..”.