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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 123796" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>It has been hard for me to gather my thoughts and state them succinctly, but rakhra ji has helped me along with that. His comments should be taken seriously.</p><p></p><p>United Arab Emirates have worked very hard to use publicity engines to promote themselves as a picture of progressive states in a traditional Arab world. That is not true. There are a few truly suspicious themes in this story.</p><p></p><p>1. A police round-up of 55 which is then narrowed to 17. This tells me that initially the police did not know who to arrest, and in the end they did not know who to charge. So they piled on ignorance with ignorance. </p><p></p><p></p><p>2. A report that 17 broke under torture</p><p></p><p>If this was a drunken brawl as depicted -- whose account of the facts can be trusted? It appears that anyone who succumbed to torture was guilty by default. This is like dipping a witch in a pond. If she drowns she is guilty, and if she survives she is surely still guilty.</p><p></p><p>3. These were all contract workers from India. As such they live in shanty towns, work horrendous hours, live in filthy and unsanitary conditions, and were brought to the emirates to work at low wages in order to develop an emerging economy. Don't forget this is a country that needs to diversify its own economy because oil reserves are running low. If they don't get on the fast-track, their own poor will turn against the rich.</p><p></p><p>This is a time-tested approach in which the desperately poor contract workers will accept any arrangement in order to feed their families and escape from economic suffering in their homeland. This is a story that every immigrant group in the developed world is familiar with. This is a group who are easy to hate -- they look sweaty, dirty, rumpled don't they? -- if you are on the receiving end of their labor. They are so easy to hate that they are easy prey if authorities are looking for scapegoats. Who is going to stand up for them, such a sorry and disgusting lot?</p><p></p><p>4. Police over-charging. Again at the risk of repeating myself. This seems to have been a drunken brawl. Maybe not. However, how does the death penalty get applied when even if one person was surely guilty the rest were of diminished capacity because of these circumstances? In a "civilized" country this would be manslaughter not murder, and the "death penalty" would be moot. But this is UAE, which believes itself to be civilized. And after all, they were only contract workers from India, so why be stuck on boring legal details. </p><p></p><p>5. The Sharia Law card was played as a public relations stunt. 42 out of 55 were released because they could not be kept in jail indefinitely without a lot of people asking embarrassing questions. </p><p></p><p>The GOI needs to think about its obligations to contract workers who are being lured by the unscrupulous for economic gain. These people are victims before they even set a foot into countries that hire them. Advocacy has to become a standing policy and pursued aggressively. We are reading about only 55 here. There is story after story about workers gone missing, or later found enslaved, dead, in jail. </p><p></p><p></p><p>And a fair minded person will not say, They were driven by greed themselves, they were drunk, let's point fingers!!!!!!</p><p></p><p>How can they be blamed when they are victims, before during and after they enter into abusive economic arrangements?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 123796, member: 35"] It has been hard for me to gather my thoughts and state them succinctly, but rakhra ji has helped me along with that. His comments should be taken seriously. United Arab Emirates have worked very hard to use publicity engines to promote themselves as a picture of progressive states in a traditional Arab world. That is not true. There are a few truly suspicious themes in this story. 1. A police round-up of 55 which is then narrowed to 17. This tells me that initially the police did not know who to arrest, and in the end they did not know who to charge. So they piled on ignorance with ignorance. 2. A report that 17 broke under torture If this was a drunken brawl as depicted -- whose account of the facts can be trusted? It appears that anyone who succumbed to torture was guilty by default. This is like dipping a witch in a pond. If she drowns she is guilty, and if she survives she is surely still guilty. 3. These were all contract workers from India. As such they live in shanty towns, work horrendous hours, live in filthy and unsanitary conditions, and were brought to the emirates to work at low wages in order to develop an emerging economy. Don't forget this is a country that needs to diversify its own economy because oil reserves are running low. If they don't get on the fast-track, their own poor will turn against the rich. This is a time-tested approach in which the desperately poor contract workers will accept any arrangement in order to feed their families and escape from economic suffering in their homeland. This is a story that every immigrant group in the developed world is familiar with. This is a group who are easy to hate -- they look sweaty, dirty, rumpled don't they? -- if you are on the receiving end of their labor. They are so easy to hate that they are easy prey if authorities are looking for scapegoats. Who is going to stand up for them, such a sorry and disgusting lot? 4. Police over-charging. Again at the risk of repeating myself. This seems to have been a drunken brawl. Maybe not. However, how does the death penalty get applied when even if one person was surely guilty the rest were of diminished capacity because of these circumstances? In a "civilized" country this would be manslaughter not murder, and the "death penalty" would be moot. But this is UAE, which believes itself to be civilized. And after all, they were only contract workers from India, so why be stuck on boring legal details. 5. The Sharia Law card was played as a public relations stunt. 42 out of 55 were released because they could not be kept in jail indefinitely without a lot of people asking embarrassing questions. The GOI needs to think about its obligations to contract workers who are being lured by the unscrupulous for economic gain. These people are victims before they even set a foot into countries that hire them. Advocacy has to become a standing policy and pursued aggressively. We are reading about only 55 here. There is story after story about workers gone missing, or later found enslaved, dead, in jail. And a fair minded person will not say, They were driven by greed themselves, they were drunk, let's point fingers!!!!!! How can they be blamed when they are victims, before during and after they enter into abusive economic arrangements? [/QUOTE]
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