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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="Vikram singh" data-source="post: 108547" data-attributes="member: 1078"><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Around India young women are becoming victims of a crime that is robbing them of their virtues and their wealth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>Every year parents from Britain take their ‘<span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Red">looser sons</span></span>’ to India and allow them to destroy the lives of innocent girls who crave for a life in Britain – or so they think.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>Many of these culprits are Sikhs, they have plagued the Punjab, with thousands of girls who have become bride and signed their lives to misery and pain, as they allow themselves to be robbed of the ‘virginitty’ become objects that give these bachelors a ‘wwhhoore’ on command whilst they are on holiday, with never a thought to these women once they return to Britain.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Rahuk Bedi has written of the misery Jaswant Kaur who is one of more than 15,000 'holiday wives' spread across India's northern Punjab state who, after years of abandonment, still awaits her husband's return from Britain.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A fortnight after their lavish wedding in the border district of Gurdaspur, Karamjit Singh - considered a prize 'catch' for most Punjabi parents wanting their daughters married as he was a non-resident Indian settled abroad - left for London.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">He promised his excited 21-year-old bride, who had never left her small town, that he would send her immigration papers within weeks to enable her to join him.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>The groom and his family also carried away <span style="color: Red">700,000 rupees ($21,867.73) in dowry and gold ornaments which the bride's parents had raised by mortgaging their small plot of land and house.</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>Eleven years later, Jaswant Kaur still waits for news from her husband.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>"We now learn that he already had a wife and two children in London when we were married" Kaur said.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>"For him I was nothing but a sexual dalliance and a source of gratification for his greed in the dowry.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Along with my family, I stand disgraced socially as an abandoned bride. I have no recourse to any redress whatsoever."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Jaswant, however, is one of the luckier ones. Karamjit Kaur from nearby Jalandar, 400km north of New Delhi, was not as fortunate. Her husband Raghbir Singh left her with his parents and returned to his job in Dubai in December 2002 after carrying away the mandatory dowry.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Three months later Karamjit's in-laws attempted to kill her by setting her alight when her parents were unable to pay additional dowry, a mode of bride murder favoured by thousands of greedy Indian husbands and their families.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Her parents lodged a police case, but were harassed in turn.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"All the police were interested in was making money out of our misery. They are doing nothing to investigate Raghbir Singh and his parents," she said.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Lust, dowry and the lure of settling abroad are responsible for the plight of thousands of these holiday wives across Punjab" said Daljit Kaur, a lawyer and activist.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">There was no legislation to safeguard them from being duped and dumped by Punjabi grooms mostly from the West, particularly Britain and North America and the Gulf Sheikhdoms.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Some men even married three or four times, managing to flee safely each time because local police favoured the boys' families.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In some instances, police took five to six years to even register a formal complaint.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Since 2002, only a small fraction of the 15,000-odd female victims had managed to lodge cases. But police officials in state capital Chandigarh privately conceded that such cases are difficult, if not impossible, to investigate because once the man has left the country, extradition was given little or no priority.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">There have also been several cases of overseas Punjabi grooms taking their wives back, insuring them for large sums and then bringing them back home to have them murdered.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">India's tortuously slow and corrupt legal and police investigation structure was insurance against them being caught, although since the mid 1990s a handful of convictions had occurred but under pressure from overseas authorities.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Punjab's intensely patriarchal social structure has a distinct gender bias against women, widely considered an economic liability as they need to be married off after payment of substantial dowries.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Abandoned brides become even more of a drain on their families.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"A woman who has been abandoned by her non-resident husband and returns to her parents' home is not welcome," said Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, head of the People's Welfare Society.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The children from such unions face even greater prejudice.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Though social awareness programmes have been launched to educate people against this evil and the government lobbied to adopt more stringent laws, progress has been incremental" Kaur said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vikram singh, post: 108547, member: 1078"] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]Around India young women are becoming victims of a crime that is robbing them of their virtues and their wealth. [COLOR=Blue][B]Every year parents from Britain take their ‘[SIZE=4][COLOR=Red]looser sons[/COLOR][/SIZE]’ to India and allow them to destroy the lives of innocent girls who crave for a life in Britain – or so they think. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue][B]Many of these culprits are Sikhs, they have plagued the Punjab, with thousands of girls who have become bride and signed their lives to misery and pain, as they allow themselves to be robbed of the ‘virginitty’ become objects that give these bachelors a ‘wwhhoore’ on command whilst they are on holiday, with never a thought to these women once they return to Britain. [/B][/COLOR] Rahuk Bedi has written of the misery Jaswant Kaur who is one of more than 15,000 'holiday wives' spread across India's northern Punjab state who, after years of abandonment, still awaits her husband's return from Britain. A fortnight after their lavish wedding in the border district of Gurdaspur, Karamjit Singh - considered a prize 'catch' for most Punjabi parents wanting their daughters married as he was a non-resident Indian settled abroad - left for London. He promised his excited 21-year-old bride, who had never left her small town, that he would send her immigration papers within weeks to enable her to join him. [COLOR=Blue][B]The groom and his family also carried away [COLOR=Red]700,000 rupees ($21,867.73) in dowry and gold ornaments which the bride's parents had raised by mortgaging their small plot of land and house.[/COLOR][/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue][B]Eleven years later, Jaswant Kaur still waits for news from her husband. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue][B]"We now learn that he already had a wife and two children in London when we were married" Kaur said. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue][B]"For him I was nothing but a sexual dalliance and a source of gratification for his greed in the dowry. [/B][/COLOR] "Along with my family, I stand disgraced socially as an abandoned bride. I have no recourse to any redress whatsoever." Jaswant, however, is one of the luckier ones. Karamjit Kaur from nearby Jalandar, 400km north of New Delhi, was not as fortunate. Her husband Raghbir Singh left her with his parents and returned to his job in Dubai in December 2002 after carrying away the mandatory dowry. Three months later Karamjit's in-laws attempted to kill her by setting her alight when her parents were unable to pay additional dowry, a mode of bride murder favoured by thousands of greedy Indian husbands and their families. Her parents lodged a police case, but were harassed in turn. "All the police were interested in was making money out of our misery. They are doing nothing to investigate Raghbir Singh and his parents," she said. "Lust, dowry and the lure of settling abroad are responsible for the plight of thousands of these holiday wives across Punjab" said Daljit Kaur, a lawyer and activist. There was no legislation to safeguard them from being duped and dumped by Punjabi grooms mostly from the West, particularly Britain and North America and the Gulf Sheikhdoms. Some men even married three or four times, managing to flee safely each time because local police favoured the boys' families. In some instances, police took five to six years to even register a formal complaint. Since 2002, only a small fraction of the 15,000-odd female victims had managed to lodge cases. But police officials in state capital Chandigarh privately conceded that such cases are difficult, if not impossible, to investigate because once the man has left the country, extradition was given little or no priority. There have also been several cases of overseas Punjabi grooms taking their wives back, insuring them for large sums and then bringing them back home to have them murdered. India's tortuously slow and corrupt legal and police investigation structure was insurance against them being caught, although since the mid 1990s a handful of convictions had occurred but under pressure from overseas authorities. Punjab's intensely patriarchal social structure has a distinct gender bias against women, widely considered an economic liability as they need to be married off after payment of substantial dowries. Abandoned brides become even more of a drain on their families. "A woman who has been abandoned by her non-resident husband and returns to her parents' home is not welcome," said Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, head of the People's Welfare Society. The children from such unions face even greater prejudice. "Though social awareness programmes have been launched to educate people against this evil and the government lobbied to adopt more stringent laws, progress has been incremental" Kaur said. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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