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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: 142261" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>Not long ago, Parti Québécois politician Louise Beaudoin was public enemy No. 1 in English Quebec. During her 1990s tenure as minister responsible for enforcing the provincial language law, Bill 101, Gazette caricaturist Aislin took to portraying Ms. Beaudoin as a leather-clad dominatrix.</p><p></p><p>Ms. Beaudoin is still in politics, but lately it is religious minorities more than anglophones who have been feeling the crack of her whip. As the PQ’s “secularism critic” she piloted last week’s motion to bar kirpan-wearing Sikhs from entering the provincial legislature. The motion, which passed unanimously, was dressed up as a security initiative but the pretext was laughable. As The Gazette’s Don Macpherson has pointed out, the PQ likened the danger represented by the Sikh ceremonial dagger to a submachine-gun but overlooked the sharp steel cutlery that is readily available to all in the National Assembly restaurant.</p><p></p><p>The PQ’s kirpan initiative was politics of the basest kind, and a poll published Monday in La Presse offers insight into the PQ’s game. The Angus Reid survey was in reaction to Conservative MP Maxime Bernier’s call for an end to Bill 101. It found strong support for Bill 101 within Quebec, as well as a sentiment that the state of the French language in the province had deteriorated over the past decade.</p><p></p><p>(The Internet poll also contained an only-in-Quebec question attempting to gauge just how small English lettering on commercial signs needs to be to ensure French predominates. People were shown representative signs with progressively smaller English type and asked to choose which was best. The most popular option was to shrink the English by 25%, but one-fifth of respondents opted for a 60% shrinkage that left the English about as visible as the bottom line of an eye chart.)</p><p></p><p>The poll’s most surprising finding was the response given when the 800 respondents were asked who to blame for the decline of French. They judged the greatest threat to French to come not from English Canada, not from the United States but from “multiculturalism in Quebec.” In other words, immigrants. Multiculturalism was judged a threat by 60% of respondents, and the figure rose to 66% among francophones.</p><p></p><p>La Presse interviewed a professor named Annick Germain, who was surprised that “the fear of the immigrant” was relatively constant among the various age groups surveyed. Playing on those fears has worked in Quebec politics before; Mario Dumont’s ADQ came close to stealing the 2007 general election with a campaign that dwelled on the erosion of Quebec values. Ms. Beaudoin and the PQ are betting that identity politics will work again. And the governing Liberals are so nervous that they ventured not a word in defence of minority rights during last week’s kirpan debate.</p><p></p><p>National Post</p><p></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/14/graeme-hamilton-kirpan-fearing-pq-finds-another-reason-to-distrust-immigrants/#ixzz1E4feYpqn" target="_blank">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/14/graeme-hamilton-kirpan-fearing-pq-finds-another-reason-to-distrust-immigrants/#ixzz1E4feYpqn</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 142261, member: 35"] Not long ago, Parti Québécois politician Louise Beaudoin was public enemy No. 1 in English Quebec. During her 1990s tenure as minister responsible for enforcing the provincial language law, Bill 101, Gazette caricaturist Aislin took to portraying Ms. Beaudoin as a leather-clad dominatrix. Ms. Beaudoin is still in politics, but lately it is religious minorities more than anglophones who have been feeling the crack of her whip. As the PQ’s “secularism critic” she piloted last week’s motion to bar kirpan-wearing Sikhs from entering the provincial legislature. The motion, which passed unanimously, was dressed up as a security initiative but the pretext was laughable. As The Gazette’s Don Macpherson has pointed out, the PQ likened the danger represented by the Sikh ceremonial dagger to a submachine-gun but overlooked the sharp steel cutlery that is readily available to all in the National Assembly restaurant. The PQ’s kirpan initiative was politics of the basest kind, and a poll published Monday in La Presse offers insight into the PQ’s game. The Angus Reid survey was in reaction to Conservative MP Maxime Bernier’s call for an end to Bill 101. It found strong support for Bill 101 within Quebec, as well as a sentiment that the state of the French language in the province had deteriorated over the past decade. (The Internet poll also contained an only-in-Quebec question attempting to gauge just how small English lettering on commercial signs needs to be to ensure French predominates. People were shown representative signs with progressively smaller English type and asked to choose which was best. The most popular option was to shrink the English by 25%, but one-fifth of respondents opted for a 60% shrinkage that left the English about as visible as the bottom line of an eye chart.) The poll’s most surprising finding was the response given when the 800 respondents were asked who to blame for the decline of French. They judged the greatest threat to French to come not from English Canada, not from the United States but from “multiculturalism in Quebec.” In other words, immigrants. Multiculturalism was judged a threat by 60% of respondents, and the figure rose to 66% among francophones. La Presse interviewed a professor named Annick Germain, who was surprised that “the fear of the immigrant” was relatively constant among the various age groups surveyed. Playing on those fears has worked in Quebec politics before; Mario Dumont’s ADQ came close to stealing the 2007 general election with a campaign that dwelled on the erosion of Quebec values. Ms. Beaudoin and the PQ are betting that identity politics will work again. And the governing Liberals are so nervous that they ventured not a word in defence of minority rights during last week’s kirpan debate. National Post Read more: [url]http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/14/graeme-hamilton-kirpan-fearing-pq-finds-another-reason-to-distrust-immigrants/#ixzz1E4feYpqn[/url] [/QUOTE]
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