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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="Neutral Singh" data-source="post: 8248" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>Here it is... i had to register for it... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>How did India react to the news of the acquittal of two Sikh Canadians accused in the Air-India bombing of 20 years ago? Did it inflame open wounds on the subcontinent of a billion people and fuel the fires of ancient ethnic conflicts? Not exactly.</p><p></p><p>"This is not relevant to us anymore," Gurcharan Das told me from New Delhi. "We have moved on. We're another country, and Khalistan (the movement for Sikh independence) is history. Those guys abroad may be stoking it up still, but it's all a foreign phenomenon to us. It's not India anymore."</p><p></p><p>Das is a Harvard-educated businessman, a columnist for the Times of India, and the author of India Unbound. The book is a popular look at the problems of the Indian economy, a prediction about its prosperous future and a call for bringing it to pass through more liberalization and growth. Thanks to India Unbound, Das has also become a leading spokesman for the new India. He's one of the most outspoken advocates of poverty reduction through free-market policies, and removal of the "Licence Raj" of red tape that has long held India back.</p><p></p><p>India is listening to people like Das. Starting in the 1980s — as we in the West were focused on images of a timeless land of poverty and sectarian strife — India started to liberalize its economy. Slowly at first, but each year a bit more. And something not surprising happened: Economic growth took off. For the past 25 years, the Indian economy has been growing at an average rate of 6 per cent — not quite as fast as China, but faster than Canada or the United States. Living standards are rising, birth rates are falling, poverty is declining, and some old conflicts have started to fade.</p><p></p><p>"The rhetoric of the last election was not about the temple or the caste, it was about economic growth," says Das. "The middle class is growing very rapidly and it is beginning to have an impact on the rhetoric of the country. It's becoming a middle-class country." </p><p></p><p>In 1984, Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar, to crush a violent Sikh independence movement. Thousands died then and in the months that followed —including 329 people (most of them Canadians) aboard the Air-India flight, and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by Sikh bodyguards. </p><p></p><p>Twenty years later, those wounds are largely healed: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is Sikh. And one of his key policy goals is raising economic growth to between 7 per cent and 8 per cent, through further liberalization. For example, he recently announced a 10,000 km expansion of the country's highway system, most of it to be built and financed by the private sector.</p><p></p><p>Canadians may want to launch an investigation into how the RCMP and CSIS bungled their inquiry into the Air-India crash. But it is worth remembering that the context in which these crimes took place is ancient history: The country that gave birth to them has changed, dramatically.</p><p></p><p>In its first decades of independence, many foreign observers believed India was on the verge of coming apart. It never did, perhaps because its people lacked the energy. Under a government that took its inspiration from British socialists and Soviet communists, India stagnated. From 1950 to 1980, India's economic near-paralysis was wryly referred to as "the Hindu rate of growth."</p><p></p><p>If growth had continued at this feeble pace, then, according to Das' calculation, Indian incomes would not have reached current American income levels until 2250. But, after 1980, annual economic growth did rise, to 6 per cent. As a result, according to Das, India can now hope to reach current American living standards by 2066 — a time frame that is very much in sight. "It is finally possible to believe," Das wrote last year, "that we shall soon be able to conquer India's age-old worry over want and hunger."</p><p></p><p>India still has a long way to go. Much reform is still needed. But the country is slowly, finally unbinding itself. "I don't like to say `I told you so' to all the naysayers who jumped on me when I wrote the book," says Das. "But it's coming true."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neutral Singh, post: 8248, member: 2"] Here it is... i had to register for it... :) How did India react to the news of the acquittal of two Sikh Canadians accused in the Air-India bombing of 20 years ago? Did it inflame open wounds on the subcontinent of a billion people and fuel the fires of ancient ethnic conflicts? Not exactly. "This is not relevant to us anymore," Gurcharan Das told me from New Delhi. "We have moved on. We're another country, and Khalistan (the movement for Sikh independence) is history. Those guys abroad may be stoking it up still, but it's all a foreign phenomenon to us. It's not India anymore." Das is a Harvard-educated businessman, a columnist for the Times of India, and the author of India Unbound. The book is a popular look at the problems of the Indian economy, a prediction about its prosperous future and a call for bringing it to pass through more liberalization and growth. Thanks to India Unbound, Das has also become a leading spokesman for the new India. He's one of the most outspoken advocates of poverty reduction through free-market policies, and removal of the "Licence Raj" of red tape that has long held India back. India is listening to people like Das. Starting in the 1980s — as we in the West were focused on images of a timeless land of poverty and sectarian strife — India started to liberalize its economy. Slowly at first, but each year a bit more. And something not surprising happened: Economic growth took off. For the past 25 years, the Indian economy has been growing at an average rate of 6 per cent — not quite as fast as China, but faster than Canada or the United States. Living standards are rising, birth rates are falling, poverty is declining, and some old conflicts have started to fade. "The rhetoric of the last election was not about the temple or the caste, it was about economic growth," says Das. "The middle class is growing very rapidly and it is beginning to have an impact on the rhetoric of the country. It's becoming a middle-class country." In 1984, Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar, to crush a violent Sikh independence movement. Thousands died then and in the months that followed —including 329 people (most of them Canadians) aboard the Air-India flight, and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by Sikh bodyguards. Twenty years later, those wounds are largely healed: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is Sikh. And one of his key policy goals is raising economic growth to between 7 per cent and 8 per cent, through further liberalization. For example, he recently announced a 10,000 km expansion of the country's highway system, most of it to be built and financed by the private sector. Canadians may want to launch an investigation into how the RCMP and CSIS bungled their inquiry into the Air-India crash. But it is worth remembering that the context in which these crimes took place is ancient history: The country that gave birth to them has changed, dramatically. In its first decades of independence, many foreign observers believed India was on the verge of coming apart. It never did, perhaps because its people lacked the energy. Under a government that took its inspiration from British socialists and Soviet communists, India stagnated. From 1950 to 1980, India's economic near-paralysis was wryly referred to as "the Hindu rate of growth." If growth had continued at this feeble pace, then, according to Das' calculation, Indian incomes would not have reached current American income levels until 2250. But, after 1980, annual economic growth did rise, to 6 per cent. As a result, according to Das, India can now hope to reach current American living standards by 2066 — a time frame that is very much in sight. "It is finally possible to believe," Das wrote last year, "that we shall soon be able to conquer India's age-old worry over want and hunger." India still has a long way to go. Much reform is still needed. But the country is slowly, finally unbinding itself. "I don't like to say `I told you so' to all the naysayers who jumped on me when I wrote the book," says Das. "But it's coming true." [/QUOTE]
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