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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)
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Gaathaa Mahala 5
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Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
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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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 128122" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #002060">Operation Blue Star: Justice Awaited</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #002060">Submitted 19 hrs 21 mins ago </span></span><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #002060">Bassam Javed</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The Operation ‘Blue Star’ was conducted by the Indian army from June 3 to 6, 1984, inside the worship place of the Sikhs holiest shrine - the Golden Temple. Golden Temple is a nerve centre of the Sikh religious and political authority. On the fateful night of June 4, the genocidal massacre of hundreds of Sikhs coincided with a Sikh annual festival wherein pilgrims had converged to the Golden Temple from all over the world on June 3 to participate. The gathering comprised elderly, women and children, who unfortunately got trapped inside the temple once the Indian army started pounding the religious complex with heavy artillery shells without any warning. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Coinciding with the assault on the Golden Temple, 38 other Gurdwaras (Temples) were also attacked by the Indian army across the state. The Times of London had covered the Sikhs extermination by writing: “Several Sikhs were shot at point blank range by troops who first tied their hands behind their backs.” There were no precise body counts done. The government projected figures of 493 civilians killed in the ruthless operation, whereas independent groups like Citizens for Democracy estimated the casualties as 8,000 Sikhs killed during the operation. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">So 26 years on, the emotional scars inflicted through the barbaric attack on the fateful night of June 4-5 on Sikhism’s holiest shrine, are far from being healed. The victims of the highly tabulated atrocities against the Sikh community throughout India still strive to seek justice from the largest democracy of the world that unfortunately happens to be their country of living also.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The Indian government had rightly conceived that somehow it could take such brutal action in utter defiance of international law and opinion, with not much criticism from the international community. Despite the huge loss of Sikhs’ lives the operation failed to jolt the collective world conscience, especially the West on the biggest massacre of unarmed Sikhs by an organised military force.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Operation Blue Star, according to many Sikhs worldwide and in Britain, was a well orchestrated plan to suppress the Sikh faith itself through massacre along with worldwide vilification of its practitioners. That still is visible when it comes to giving equal opportunities to the Sikhs. In an Amnesty International (UK Chapter) report of 2008, the events that took place 26 years ago in the Golden Temple describes them as a “national disgrace” for India, as the government has failed so far to mete out justice to those responsible for the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The events of June 1984 demonstrate the fragility of Indian democracy, and an example of modern day massacre of a religious minority on a grandeur scale. The Indian official media continues to overlook the events of the operation, and still tries to justify the massacre. For example, an Indian government sponsored BBC documentary aired in January this year compared Sikh martyr, a saint and a great leader Jarnail Singh Bhinrawale, with Osama Bin Laden. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">About 26 years have passed since the greatest Sikh tragedy took place at the hands of the Indian army. Yet, there are two issues before the bewildered Sikh victims of the Indian efforts to exterminate their community. The first one is that “was the army action necessary and unavoidable?” And the second is that “if the action was unavoidable, could it not have taken any other saner form that could prevent destruction, bloodshed and brutalities of the Indian army?”</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Despite the establishment of innumerable high-powered committees from time to time on the issue, a few people have been booked whereas the actual perpetrators of the crimes remain eluding the call of justice. Without resolve and political will, the culprits will never be nabbed. It is believed that some of the Congress leaders were also involved in the genocide. There are also possibilities that under the patronage of the Indian army and some leaders at that time some other fanatic groups may have also been active in carrying out the massacre. The eyewitnesses of the 1984 Sikh genocide still recall the swiftness and military precision of the marauding gangs under the guidance of the Indian army that went on a burning spree of innocent and unarmed Sikhs, including the elderly and children. Same madness was also observed during the demolition of Babri Mosque and the last pogrom of Muslims in the Indian State of Gujarat. The involvement of Hindu fanatics in the massacre has never been considered or investigated at any forum to-date.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">A document titled Indra Congress - RSS collusion, authored by a luminary and veteran of RSS Nana Deshmukh, was published in one of the weekly Hindi language magazine Pratipaksh in its edition of November 25, 1984. The document highlights some of the unhidden aspects of genocide and justifies the massacre of the Sikh community, as the result of genuine feeling of anger among Hindus of India. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The Golden Temple, also humbly known as The Harmandir Sahib, brings peace and solace for those who seek spiritual succour. This place of worship was brutally assaulted by the Indian army. More than the tragedy of the slain innocent men, women and children, who had gathered to pay homage to the martyrdom gurpurab of Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the Golden Temple still remains a sinister reminder for the 20th Century society, which boasts the sanctity of individual rights and privileges, that India could still adopt barbaric methods to curb the democratic rights of a section of its society. The ghastly invasion of the Golden Temple has acted as a catalyst on the psyche of the Sikh nation around the globe. The incident led them to introspect, to redouble their resolve in achieving justice for the slaughter and to water their roots afresh to have their identity acknowledged by the Indian State. The present Indian government led by Mr Manmohan Singh, who himself is a Sikh, must take on as a moral obligation to address the campaign for justice, in order to assuage the sense of mass grief that is abundantly prevalent in the Sikh community. </span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="color: #002060">The writer is a freelance columnist. </span></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #8064a2">http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Opinions/Columns/08-Jun-2010/Operation-Blue-Star-justice-awaited </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 128122, member: 884"] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#002060]Operation Blue Star: Justice Awaited[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=1][COLOR=#002060]Submitted 19 hrs 21 mins ago [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=1][COLOR=#002060]Bassam Javed[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#002060]The Operation ‘Blue Star’ was conducted by the Indian army from June 3 to 6, 1984, inside the worship place of the Sikhs holiest shrine - the Golden Temple. Golden Temple is a nerve centre of the Sikh religious and political authority. On the fateful night of June 4, the genocidal massacre of hundreds of Sikhs coincided with a Sikh annual festival wherein pilgrims had converged to the Golden Temple from all over the world on June 3 to participate. The gathering comprised elderly, women and children, who unfortunately got trapped inside the temple once the Indian army started pounding the religious complex with heavy artillery shells without any warning. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Coinciding with the assault on the Golden Temple, 38 other Gurdwaras (Temples) were also attacked by the Indian army across the state. The Times of London had covered the Sikhs extermination by writing: “Several Sikhs were shot at point blank range by troops who first tied their hands behind their backs.” There were no precise body counts done. The government projected figures of 493 civilians killed in the ruthless operation, whereas independent groups like Citizens for Democracy estimated the casualties as 8,000 Sikhs killed during the operation. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]So 26 years on, the emotional scars inflicted through the barbaric attack on the fateful night of June 4-5 on Sikhism’s holiest shrine, are far from being healed. The victims of the highly tabulated atrocities against the Sikh community throughout India still strive to seek justice from the largest democracy of the world that unfortunately happens to be their country of living also.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The Indian government had rightly conceived that somehow it could take such brutal action in utter defiance of international law and opinion, with not much criticism from the international community. Despite the huge loss of Sikhs’ lives the operation failed to jolt the collective world conscience, especially the West on the biggest massacre of unarmed Sikhs by an organised military force.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Operation Blue Star, according to many Sikhs worldwide and in Britain, was a well orchestrated plan to suppress the Sikh faith itself through massacre along with worldwide vilification of its practitioners. That still is visible when it comes to giving equal opportunities to the Sikhs. In an Amnesty International (UK Chapter) report of 2008, the events that took place 26 years ago in the Golden Temple describes them as a “national disgrace” for India, as the government has failed so far to mete out justice to those responsible for the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The events of June 1984 demonstrate the fragility of Indian democracy, and an example of modern day massacre of a religious minority on a grandeur scale. The Indian official media continues to overlook the events of the operation, and still tries to justify the massacre. For example, an Indian government sponsored BBC documentary aired in January this year compared Sikh martyr, a saint and a great leader Jarnail Singh Bhinrawale, with Osama Bin Laden. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]About 26 years have passed since the greatest Sikh tragedy took place at the hands of the Indian army. Yet, there are two issues before the bewildered Sikh victims of the Indian efforts to exterminate their community. The first one is that “was the army action necessary and unavoidable?” And the second is that “if the action was unavoidable, could it not have taken any other saner form that could prevent destruction, bloodshed and brutalities of the Indian army?”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Despite the establishment of innumerable high-powered committees from time to time on the issue, a few people have been booked whereas the actual perpetrators of the crimes remain eluding the call of justice. Without resolve and political will, the culprits will never be nabbed. It is believed that some of the Congress leaders were also involved in the genocide. There are also possibilities that under the patronage of the Indian army and some leaders at that time some other fanatic groups may have also been active in carrying out the massacre. The eyewitnesses of the 1984 Sikh genocide still recall the swiftness and military precision of the marauding gangs under the guidance of the Indian army that went on a burning spree of innocent and unarmed Sikhs, including the elderly and children. Same madness was also observed during the demolition of Babri Mosque and the last pogrom of Muslims in the Indian State of Gujarat. The involvement of Hindu fanatics in the massacre has never been considered or investigated at any forum to-date.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]A document titled Indra Congress - RSS collusion, authored by a luminary and veteran of RSS Nana Deshmukh, was published in one of the weekly Hindi language magazine Pratipaksh in its edition of November 25, 1984. The document highlights some of the unhidden aspects of genocide and justifies the massacre of the Sikh community, as the result of genuine feeling of anger among Hindus of India. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The Golden Temple, also humbly known as The Harmandir Sahib, brings peace and solace for those who seek spiritual succour. This place of worship was brutally assaulted by the Indian army. More than the tragedy of the slain innocent men, women and children, who had gathered to pay homage to the martyrdom gurpurab of Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the Golden Temple still remains a sinister reminder for the 20th Century society, which boasts the sanctity of individual rights and privileges, that India could still adopt barbaric methods to curb the democratic rights of a section of its society. The ghastly invasion of the Golden Temple has acted as a catalyst on the psyche of the Sikh nation around the globe. The incident led them to introspect, to redouble their resolve in achieving justice for the slaughter and to water their roots afresh to have their identity acknowledged by the Indian State. The present Indian government led by Mr Manmohan Singh, who himself is a Sikh, must take on as a moral obligation to address the campaign for justice, in order to assuage the sense of mass grief that is abundantly prevalent in the Sikh community. [/COLOR] [I][COLOR=#002060]The writer is a freelance columnist. [/COLOR][/I] [SIZE=1][COLOR=#8064a2]http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Opinions/Columns/08-Jun-2010/Operation-Blue-Star-justice-awaited [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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