Rohith
Vemula (26), a second year PhD student at University of Hyderabad, committed
suicide on Sunday evening. According to The New Indian Express report, Vemula
was active in student politics, but had grown increasingly silent after the
disciplinary action was initiated against him by the university. The Joint
Action Committee (JAC) of various student groups said Rohith was highly
depressed due to suspension and expulsion from the hostel. According to the
latest CNN IBN report, Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and University vice
chancellor have been booked under SC/ST act. JNU students are protesting over
this issue near the HRD ministry and have written a letter to Smriti Irani
about the same, seeking resignation of the Hyderabad University's VC. Jan. 18 http://goo.gl/t3QDBx
Security
forces have ended a gun and bomb attack on a university in north-west Pakistan
in which 19 people were killed and 50 injured. Four suspected attackers also
died in a battle that lasted nearly three hours at Bacha Khan University in
Charsadda. There are conflicting reports about whether Pakistan Taliban
militants carried out the assault. The group killed 130 students at a school in
the city of Peshawar, 50km (30 miles) from Charsadda, in 2014. About 3,000
students are enrolled at Bacha Khan but hundreds of visitors were also expected
on Wednesday for a poetry event. Jan. 20 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35359072
Transiting
retrograde Mercury squares Uranus and conjoins Pluto (Jan. 20 to Jan.22). The effect
of the Uranus-Pluto square in one sentence would be: Rebellions (Uranus) fomented by individuals (Aries) who stand up
in protest against the oppressive (Pluto) influence (real or perceived) of institutions
(Capricorn).
Shown here are the charts
for the Mercury-Uranus square drawn for Hyderabad and Charsadda where the two
incidents reported above have taken place. Notice that the common factor is the
placement of the T-square comprising Mercury-Uranus-Pluto-Zeus on the horizon
axis. Mercury rules young people, schools and places of learning so that both events
are connected with a university. Mercury is conjunct the asteroid Lacrimosa
which like the asteroid Orpheus rules both depression as well as death.
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