INNER WHEEL CLUB OF ROURKELA MID-TOWN District 326 Charter no 3827 May’24 Issue Trish Douglas Rasika Bahadur Preeti Gugnani IIW President(2023-24) District Chairman(2023-24) Association President(2023-24) What’s inside? April events Upcoming events Birthdays & Anniversaries Did you know? Member’s Contribution
April events: Pana Sankranti : The auspious occasion of Pana Sankranti marks the beginning of Odia New Year. It was celebrated on 15th April. Like every year, the club members distributed cold water, juice and buttermilk at Waterpoint, Chhend, managed by the club. Around 2000 people were served to cope in this scorching heat.
Upcoming Events: Distribution of weighing scale to vegetable and fruit venders Birthdays & Anniversaries: PP Rucha Kakkad celebrated her birthday on 8.4.24 PP Madhawi Purohit celebrated her wedding anniversary on 17.4.24 PP Abha Behera celebrated her wedding anniversary on 28.4.24 We wish you all good health and happiness always.
Did you know? INTERNATIONAL INNER WHEEL is the administrative body of Inner Wheel organisations worldwide. It is governed by an Executive Committee of five elected officers: President, Vice-President, Immediate Past President, Treasurer, and Constitution Chairman. The EC together with 16 elected Board Directors, make up the International Governing Body. An Editor/Media Manager who is responsible for the IIW website, media output and promotional documents is also nominated and elected. The elections are held once every year from nominations received all over the world. The EC is assisted by a full time administrator. IIW EXECUTIVE- 2024-25 President Mamta Gupta India Vice-President Kay Morland Australia IIW Past President Trish Douglas GB & I Treasurer Rashmi Sharma India Constitution Chairman Patricia Mary Hilton India
Member’s Contribution *WHY INDIA MUST KNOW ABOUT BAISAKHI* While the Punjabis celebrate Vaisakhi across India; rest of India wonders if it is about doing Bhangra and dancing. No, it is not; Baisakhi holds a lesson for all Indians...... Specially in this day and age... So this day in 1699, in a congregation of people from all across India...standing there in Anandpur Sahab, listening to their Guru, the then Gobind Rai. Gobind Rai asked for human sacrifice of five men, one after the other. Five men from different castes, from different parts of India, stood up from the crowd of thousands. - A shopkeeper, Baniya called Daya Ram from Lahore - A farmer, Jat called Dharam Das from Meerut - A so called low-caste water carrier, called Himmat Rai from Jagannath Puri, Odisha - A tailor,of Cheemba caste called Mokam Chand from Dwarka, Gujarat - A barber, of Naai caste called Sahib Chand from Bidar, Karnataka With his choice of disciples from five different corners of India, Gobind Rai ji visualised the Nation dream... from the coast of Gujarat along Western Arabian Sea to coasts of Odisha along the Bay of Bengal; from the great Plains of Punjab to the the Gangetic Plain and then onto the Deccan peninsula covering Karnataka. Do not forget that at that time, all these were separate states; it was Guru Gobind Singh ji who thought of all of them as one People, a Nation, on this Baisakhi day of 1699. With the choice of disciples from five different caste-groups, he visualised an integrated class-less society.
The five were christened as the First Five Khalsa Sikhs, and the five in turn christened their Guru as the sixth. Gobind Rai was now Gobind Singh ji. All caste names and surnames were dropped, & a common surname SINGH was proposed for all Indians across India; a surname that denoted a caste-less, class-less creed of men willing to sacrifice themselves for the nation and against injustice. And this was the Indian that he envisioned from the five corners of HIS nation. Guru Gobind Singh ji was a visionary par excellence. His vision has been diluted and limited to Sikhism, that is a travesty. Awake India, awake to his Vision. Leave those caste barriers, acquire knowledge, be strong in body and be a Khalsa in spirit. PP Harpal Roopra…
Compiled by: Rucha Kakkad Editor(2023-24)