Cola war in Junglistan

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The teashop at Junglistan's main junction was busy. They were all there. Tigers, elephants, porcupines, wolves, cows, buffalos, goats, monkeys, antelopes, alligators, crocodiles, cobras, vipers, pythons, sparrows, parrots, crows, mynas, parrots, kites, all of them. They had assembled there for their morning cup of tea and a piece of vada before they go to work. That's their daily routine, reading the Jungle Times over a cup of hot chai made by Ittooppu, the goat who owned the shop. His tea is famous, he brings it from the hills of Munnar. Kesu, the monkey, was reading the newspaper aloud, for everybody's benefit. Or else there would be a fight for the only newspaper at the shop. The perils of literacy, one might say -- everyone in Junglistan could read and write. "Junglistan Chief Minister Tortoise Kunhiraman has announced a ban on the sale and production of Choke....