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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="Admin" data-source="post: 101343" data-attributes="member: 1"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><a href="http://www.warriorsreligion.com/media/awr-officialtrailer" target="_blank">Watch The Trailer</a></strong></p><p> A local filmmaker is hoping the security guards and insurance policy he's secured won't be needed at the Vancouver screening of his film.</p><p></p><p>He's hoping Vancouver's Sikh community won't judge his documentary by its title alone.</p><p></p><p>The film, A Warrior's Religion by Mani Amar, takes a hard look at gang activity among Metro Vancouver's Sikh youth. It includes interviews with former gangsters, drug runners, police and parents of murdered youth.</p><p></p><p>It's screening May 28 and 29 at the Raja Cinema at 3215 Kingsway.</p><p></p><p>Amar describes himself as born into the Sikh community but not a practicing Sikh. His film questions whether aspects of Sikh culture--with its emphasis on masculine bravado, honour and taking risks--predispose youth from that community to join gangs.</p><p></p><p>The question has proved highly controversial. Before the film's Surrey premiere, Amar said, he received threatening phone calls in the middle of the night and hate mail. "People called to argue, telling me I'm a bad Sikh," he said. Some callers made death threats.</p><p></p><p>During the first of four premiere screenings in March at the Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey, someone--believed to be a disgruntled audience member--damaged the theatre's sprinkler system. The result, said Amar, was $45,000 in damages.</p><p></p><p>Amar was thankful he'd purchased an insurance policy. <em>"It was the best $110 I've ever spent."</em></p><p></p><p>After the screenings, however, people came up to shake his hand.</p><p></p><p>"So many people came on board," Amar said. "People understood that I wasn't trying to bring down the [Sikh] community. I was trying to support it."</p><p></p><p>Amar, 27, was compelled to make the film after his family moved from Port Alberni to Burnaby.</p><p></p><p><em>"It was total culture shock every day,"</em> he said.<em> "The kids I was hanging out with would be [saying], 'Hey, did you hear? My cousin was shot.'"</em></p><p></p><p>Every few days, Amar would read newspaper accounts of yet another shooting.<em> "Some kids [were] my age and even younger, shot and killed. I thought, I need to do something."</em></p><p></p><p>By Amar's count, more than 100 youth from the Sikh community died in gang violence from 1990 to 2005, when he decided to make the film.</p><p></p><p><em>"These [gangsters] aren't from poverty stricken homes, but from upper middle-class families,"</em> Amar said.<em> "So we already have the money... why were we getting so readily involved in gang violence?"</em></p><p></p><p>He decided to ask that question of someone who knew the answer first-hand: former gangster Bal Buttar. A 2001 shooting left Buttar blind and a quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair.</p><p></p><p>Amar's former fiancee, who worked in the health care field, helped him sneak into the care facility where Buttar lived. While she distracted a nurse, Amar slipped into Buttar's room. He told Buttar about the film he hoped to make. A deal was struck: Amar would help Buttar take notes for the book Buttar hoped to write.</p><p></p><p>The resulting interview, said Amar, really grips youth. "<em>They say, 'Oh. I don't want to wind up like that.'"</em></p><p></p><p>The scene that packs the biggest emotional punch, however, is a graveside scene where Amar interviews Eileen Mohan, whose son was killed as an innocent bystander during a violent multiple gang murder in a Surrey apartment building. "It took me nearly two weeks to edit that," said Amar.<em> "Every time I'd watch the hour-long interview, it would make me all emotional."</em></p><p></p><p>Amar hopes his film will screen in schools. Secondary schools in Surrey and Richmond have expressed an interest, he said. More information on <strong>A Warrior's Religion</strong> can be found at <a href="http://www.warriorsreligion.com/" target="_blank">www.warriorsreligion.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 101343, member: 1"] [CENTER][B][URL="http://www.warriorsreligion.com/media/awr-officialtrailer"]Watch The Trailer[/URL][/B][/CENTER] A local filmmaker is hoping the security guards and insurance policy he's secured won't be needed at the Vancouver screening of his film. He's hoping Vancouver's Sikh community won't judge his documentary by its title alone. The film, A Warrior's Religion by Mani Amar, takes a hard look at gang activity among Metro Vancouver's Sikh youth. It includes interviews with former gangsters, drug runners, police and parents of murdered youth. It's screening May 28 and 29 at the Raja Cinema at 3215 Kingsway. Amar describes himself as born into the Sikh community but not a practicing Sikh. His film questions whether aspects of Sikh culture--with its emphasis on masculine bravado, honour and taking risks--predispose youth from that community to join gangs. The question has proved highly controversial. Before the film's Surrey premiere, Amar said, he received threatening phone calls in the middle of the night and hate mail. "People called to argue, telling me I'm a bad Sikh," he said. Some callers made death threats. During the first of four premiere screenings in March at the Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey, someone--believed to be a disgruntled audience member--damaged the theatre's sprinkler system. The result, said Amar, was $45,000 in damages. Amar was thankful he'd purchased an insurance policy. [I]"It was the best $110 I've ever spent."[/I] After the screenings, however, people came up to shake his hand. "So many people came on board," Amar said. "People understood that I wasn't trying to bring down the [Sikh] community. I was trying to support it." Amar, 27, was compelled to make the film after his family moved from Port Alberni to Burnaby. [I]"It was total culture shock every day,"[/I] he said.[I] "The kids I was hanging out with would be [saying], 'Hey, did you hear? My cousin was shot.'"[/I] Every few days, Amar would read newspaper accounts of yet another shooting.[I] "Some kids [were] my age and even younger, shot and killed. I thought, I need to do something."[/I] By Amar's count, more than 100 youth from the Sikh community died in gang violence from 1990 to 2005, when he decided to make the film. [I]"These [gangsters] aren't from poverty stricken homes, but from upper middle-class families,"[/I] Amar said.[I] "So we already have the money... why were we getting so readily involved in gang violence?"[/I] He decided to ask that question of someone who knew the answer first-hand: former gangster Bal Buttar. A 2001 shooting left Buttar blind and a quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair. Amar's former fiancee, who worked in the health care field, helped him sneak into the care facility where Buttar lived. While she distracted a nurse, Amar slipped into Buttar's room. He told Buttar about the film he hoped to make. A deal was struck: Amar would help Buttar take notes for the book Buttar hoped to write. The resulting interview, said Amar, really grips youth. "[I]They say, 'Oh. I don't want to wind up like that.'"[/I] The scene that packs the biggest emotional punch, however, is a graveside scene where Amar interviews Eileen Mohan, whose son was killed as an innocent bystander during a violent multiple gang murder in a Surrey apartment building. "It took me nearly two weeks to edit that," said Amar.[I] "Every time I'd watch the hour-long interview, it would make me all emotional."[/I] Amar hopes his film will screen in schools. Secondary schools in Surrey and Richmond have expressed an interest, he said. More information on [B]A Warrior's Religion[/B] can be found at [URL="http://www.warriorsreligion.com/"]www.warriorsreligion.com[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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