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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: 114552" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><img src="http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTPunjab/Photographs/2009/11/01/002/01_11_2009_002_009_008.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTPunjab/Photographs/2009/11/01/002/01_11_2009_002_009_009.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> <img src="http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTPunjab/Photographs/2009/11/01/002/01_11_2009_002_009_010.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Two commissions, eight committees and 25 years later, the truth behind the 1984 riots, when over 3,000 Sikhs in the national capital were massacred by organised mobs that trawled the streets for almost four days, has it seems been wilfully buried by the political machinery.</p><p></p><p></p><p> The guilty behind the worst riots since Partition are yet to be identified, much less punished.</p><p></p><p></p><p> The story of the investigation has been a glaring example of how the political establishment used the administrative machinery to obfuscate the truth, protect the guilty and obstruct the course of justice, say lawyers and civil rights activists who have been following the investigation trail.</p><p></p><p></p><p> "Everyone has played along, even as the riot victims look on hopelessly," exclaims lawyer H.S. Phoolka, who has spearheaded one of the longest and most tortuous legal battles to gain justice for riot victims.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Except for a few inconsequential convictions, some who have subsequently been acquitted, not one politician or senior police official has been punished for the pogrom that took place in full public view in the days following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. A majority of cases have led to acquittal.</p><p></p><p></p><p> "There have been just 20 convictions for murder. Most cases are already over where the accused have been acquitted.</p><p></p><p>Only four to five cases are left now," adds Phoolka. In November 1984, civil rights groups -- including People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) -released their explosive report "Who are the guilty". Among other things, the report carried an annexure listing the names of people against whom the victims had levelled allegations.</p><p></p><p></p><p> They included 198 local Congress activists and others, 15 Congress leaders and 143 police officials. The main findings were substantiated by the report of the Citizens For Democracy and by a citizens' commission headed by former chief justice of India S.M. Sikri.</p><p>But their petition for a judicial inquiry was dismissed.</p><p></p><p></p><p> "In the tortuous course of administering justice, at every single step a technical flaw or a knot was created, which doomed the next step. And every committee gave birth to another," the report then damningly noted.</p><p></p><p></p><p> The government, on its part, has only doled out compensation to relatives of those killed in the sectarian violence after a commission headed by retired judge G.T. Nanavati submitted its report in August 2005.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Nanavati claimed that there was evidence against Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H.K.L. Bhagat for instigating the mobs to attack and kill Sikhs. But the commission failed to pinpoint the role of Congress functionaries.</p><p></p><p></p><p> "Cases are still pending against Sajjan Kumar and despite the Central Bureau of Investigation wanting to drop charges against Tytler, we are pursuing the case against him," says senior lawyer Vrinda Grover, who has chronicled the various committees and commissions set up since 1984.</p><p></p><p></p><p> "It is a pity that justice has eluded victims in a situation where the killings were in full public view. Clearly the present criminal justice system has failed to deliver on mass crime," she adds. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=01_11_2009_002_009&kword=&mode=1" target="_blank">http://epaper. hindustantimes. com/ArticleText. aspx?article= 01_11_2009_ 002_009&kword=&mode=1</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 114552, member: 35"] [IMG]http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTPunjab/Photographs/2009/11/01/002/01_11_2009_002_009_008.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTPunjab/Photographs/2009/11/01/002/01_11_2009_002_009_009.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTPunjab/Photographs/2009/11/01/002/01_11_2009_002_009_010.jpg[/IMG]Two commissions, eight committees and 25 years later, the truth behind the 1984 riots, when over 3,000 Sikhs in the national capital were massacred by organised mobs that trawled the streets for almost four days, has it seems been wilfully buried by the political machinery. The guilty behind the worst riots since Partition are yet to be identified, much less punished. The story of the investigation has been a glaring example of how the political establishment used the administrative machinery to obfuscate the truth, protect the guilty and obstruct the course of justice, say lawyers and civil rights activists who have been following the investigation trail. "Everyone has played along, even as the riot victims look on hopelessly," exclaims lawyer H.S. Phoolka, who has spearheaded one of the longest and most tortuous legal battles to gain justice for riot victims. Except for a few inconsequential convictions, some who have subsequently been acquitted, not one politician or senior police official has been punished for the pogrom that took place in full public view in the days following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. A majority of cases have led to acquittal. "There have been just 20 convictions for murder. Most cases are already over where the accused have been acquitted. Only four to five cases are left now," adds Phoolka. In November 1984, civil rights groups -- including People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) -released their explosive report "Who are the guilty". Among other things, the report carried an annexure listing the names of people against whom the victims had levelled allegations. They included 198 local Congress activists and others, 15 Congress leaders and 143 police officials. The main findings were substantiated by the report of the Citizens For Democracy and by a citizens' commission headed by former chief justice of India S.M. Sikri. But their petition for a judicial inquiry was dismissed. "In the tortuous course of administering justice, at every single step a technical flaw or a knot was created, which doomed the next step. And every committee gave birth to another," the report then damningly noted. The government, on its part, has only doled out compensation to relatives of those killed in the sectarian violence after a commission headed by retired judge G.T. Nanavati submitted its report in August 2005. Nanavati claimed that there was evidence against Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H.K.L. Bhagat for instigating the mobs to attack and kill Sikhs. But the commission failed to pinpoint the role of Congress functionaries. "Cases are still pending against Sajjan Kumar and despite the Central Bureau of Investigation wanting to drop charges against Tytler, we are pursuing the case against him," says senior lawyer Vrinda Grover, who has chronicled the various committees and commissions set up since 1984. "It is a pity that justice has eluded victims in a situation where the killings were in full public view. Clearly the present criminal justice system has failed to deliver on mass crime," she adds. [URL="http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=01_11_2009_002_009&kword=&mode=1"]http://epaper. hindustantimes. com/ArticleText. aspx?article= 01_11_2009_ 002_009&kword=&mode=1[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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