Stars acknowledge ‘the teen crusaders’ of Calcutta

Salim Shekh and Sikha Patra are  two teenagers, who just finished their Madhyamik exam, live in Nehru Colony near Ultadanga where they work as community leaders. But ask them about their biggest achievement and they point to the taps in their neighbourhood from where drinking water has started flowing after years of a campaign that they spearheaded. The supply, which started a month ago, will remain a trickle till the under-construction tank to hold the Tallah Palta water works supply is ready near Golaghata. “But it’s a start,” they say of the 90 minutes of drinking water now available daily. So long, the water in their taps had so much iron that people of the colony had to queue up before dawn at a faraway tap for potable water. That is the sequence with which The Revolutionary Optimists — the film now taking them to the US — starts, Salim and Sikha accompanying their mothers with buckets in the faint glow of the street lights. The Revolutionary Optimists, as Metro had reported earlier, is a documentary film produced by Stanford University focusing on the way the NGO Prayasam is empowering children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods to bring about a change in their community.[1]

Readers may like to revisit a previous post on how the eclipse of 21 May 2012 showed the water problem in Calcutta being eased by the work of  dedicated engineers.

Fomalhaut brings water to Calcutta

The same eclipse progressed to March 23, 2013, the date of the news item, shows it activated once again. Notice that the Mars leg of T-square involving Sun-Neptune-Mars is now at the progressed IC.

Mars [10vi56] is conjunct the star Zosma, on the hind of the Lion and which Nick Fiorenza [2] and Diana Rosenberg [3]  associate with ‘toxicity’ and ‘toxic chemicals’ respectively. Is it a coincidence that in the T-square, Neptune is conjunct the star Fomalhaut on the mouth of the Fish receiving the flowing waters from the Urn of the humanitarian waterbearer; while Mars is conjunct Zosma – a star connected with toxic chemicals and  on the Ascendant of this chart at 23ge we have  a Chinese asterism that is indicated as a Water Reservoir! [4] *. But the story line is not complete without acknowledging the role of  Mirfak, [2ge15] alpha Perseus, conjunct the Sun [0ge21]. Perseus is  the hero who rescues Andromeda, the maiden in distress – here the ordinary people suffering without drinking water. Finally tropical  Gemini in which the eclipse took place is often shown as two young children holding hands – are these Salim and Sikha here!!

[1] http://bit.ly/15CPJK4

[2]  Nick Fiorenza  http://www.lunarplanner.com/LunarMonths2009/lunarmonth.09.02.25.html

[3] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana Rosenberg [v1. p.609]

[4] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana Rosenberg [v1. p.699]

Note:(*)

The eclipse has Sun [0ge] conjunct TNP Admetus [27ta] and square Neptune [3pi]

Neptune: water; Admetus: Inventory or storage (reservoir)