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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)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 85160" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Thursday, August 7th, 2008 </p><p> News Source: <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=b0f643b0-a5a5-4f75-9ac5-f41e00841638" target="_blank">www.canada.com</a></p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> as 'celebration of Canada' Cleve Dheensaw, Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, August 06, 2008</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">BEIJING - Some Canadians might not agree with the notion of altering or adding to the national team marching uniform for an Olympic opening ceremonies. Yet after listening to Canadian field hockey player Ravi Kahlon's eloquent explanation, you at least understand the reasoning why he and three fellow Indo-Canadian players will wear turbans when marching into the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Games on Friday.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The four players - Victoria's Kahlon, Bindi Kullar of North Delta, Gabbar Singh of Surrey and Ranjeev Deol of Mississauga, Ont. - don't wear turbans in everyday life and don't ever intend to. So why now, on this mammoth stage, with the world watching?</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I want to challenge the identity issue," said Kahlon, who admitted the other three players, and assistant coach and former Canadian Olympian Nicki Sandhu, were reluctant when he first broached the idea with them.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><img src="http://www.sikhnet.com/files/news/2008/August/Ravi.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></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">Ravi Kahlon (right) shows seven-year-old Caleb Wallden the ins and outs of field hockey during a youth camp in Victoria last month.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I want to show that you can wear a turban and still be Canadian," he added.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The reaction of other teammates has been mixed, admitted Kahlon, but most are supportive.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"When some of them first heard about this, a few said 'This is the Canadian team, not the Indian team,' " said Kahlon.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Exactly, noted Kahlon. That is precisely the point he wants to make. A turban is a Sikh religious symbol and in no way an Indian national symbol. Kahlon said as a Canadian he would never wear any symbol of Indian nationhood during the Olympics or at any international competition.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"This is no different than wearing a cross on your chest or a Jewish yarmulke during the opening ceremonies, which nobody would have any problem with," said Kahlon, an RBC ******** specialist, and outstanding forward appearing in his second Olympic Games.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"We're a country of immigrants and this is a celebration of Canada and the fact that in our country, you can be anything you want to be. I think it's great that Italian-Canadians gather at shops along Commercial Drive (in Vancouver) and in Toronto to cheer on the Italian national soccer team. Nobody bats an eye about that. Nobody. They mean no offence. And we also mean no offence."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The family backgrounds of the two other Indo-Canadian players on Team Canada, Wayne Fernandes and Ken Pereira as well as head coach Louis Mendonca, are Goan and not Sikh, so they won't be wearing turbans in the opening ceremonies.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Kahlon was born and raised in Victoria but said he is cognizant of the immigrant experience and it's that part of Canada he has chosen to celebrate when marching into the massive 91,000-seat Bird's Nest Stadium Friday behind Canadian flag bearer and kayaker Adam van Koeverden, of Oakville, Ont.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"My dad had to cut his beard and lose his turban to get a job when he came to Canada (in 1970)," said Kahlon. "Now we can choose to wear a turban or not and it doesn't affect anybody making a living. Now we can celebrate that evolution of our country. During the opening ceremonies, I want people to think about Canadians coming in all kinds of packages, and yet we're all still Canadians."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Team Canada captain, Rob Short of Victoria, is supportive and any small grumbling there may on the team will have to go through him. Short and the Kahlons go back a long way. There is a well-dented garage door in the Gordon Head area of suburban Victoria that tells the tale of a journey to the Beijing Games. That's where brothers Rob and Pete Short, along with Kahlon, played their no-holds barred road hockey games in front of the Kahlon family home.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"The Sikh community in B.C. has been very good to us - it raised $15,000 in one weekend to help in our preparations for Beijing - and as captain, I have no problem with this (turbans in the opening ceremonies)," said Short.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"We all bring something of our backgrounds to our national team and as Canadians at the Olympics. This is a part of who Ravi, Bindi, Ranjeev and Gabbar are. My parents are English and that's why I came to play field hockey and not ice hockey."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Pete Short even takes it one step further.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Pete asked if he could wear a turban, too, during the opening ceremonies," chuckled Kahlon.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I said maybe when we get back to Canada and have our post-Games party."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">And you don't even have to ask the colour of the opening ceremonies turbans.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Canadian red, of course," said Kahlon.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 85160, member: 1"] Thursday, August 7th, 2008 News Source: [URL="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=b0f643b0-a5a5-4f75-9ac5-f41e00841638"]www.canada.com[/URL] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2] as 'celebration of Canada' Cleve Dheensaw, Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, August 06, 2008[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]BEIJING - Some Canadians might not agree with the notion of altering or adding to the national team marching uniform for an Olympic opening ceremonies. Yet after listening to Canadian field hockey player Ravi Kahlon's eloquent explanation, you at least understand the reasoning why he and three fellow Indo-Canadian players will wear turbans when marching into the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Games on Friday.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The four players - Victoria's Kahlon, Bindi Kullar of North Delta, Gabbar Singh of Surrey and Ranjeev Deol of Mississauga, Ont. - don't wear turbans in everyday life and don't ever intend to. So why now, on this mammoth stage, with the world watching?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"I want to challenge the identity issue," said Kahlon, who admitted the other three players, and assistant coach and former Canadian Olympian Nicki Sandhu, were reluctant when he first broached the idea with them.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][IMG]http://www.sikhnet.com/files/news/2008/August/Ravi.jpg[/IMG] Ravi Kahlon (right) shows seven-year-old Caleb Wallden the ins and outs of field hockey during a youth camp in Victoria last month.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"I want to show that you can wear a turban and still be Canadian," he added.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The reaction of other teammates has been mixed, admitted Kahlon, but most are supportive.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"When some of them first heard about this, a few said 'This is the Canadian team, not the Indian team,' " said Kahlon.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Exactly, noted Kahlon. That is precisely the point he wants to make. A turban is a Sikh religious symbol and in no way an Indian national symbol. Kahlon said as a Canadian he would never wear any symbol of Indian nationhood during the Olympics or at any international competition.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"This is no different than wearing a cross on your chest or a Jewish yarmulke during the opening ceremonies, which nobody would have any problem with," said Kahlon, an RBC ******** specialist, and outstanding forward appearing in his second Olympic Games.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"We're a country of immigrants and this is a celebration of Canada and the fact that in our country, you can be anything you want to be. I think it's great that Italian-Canadians gather at shops along Commercial Drive (in Vancouver) and in Toronto to cheer on the Italian national soccer team. Nobody bats an eye about that. Nobody. They mean no offence. And we also mean no offence."[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The family backgrounds of the two other Indo-Canadian players on Team Canada, Wayne Fernandes and Ken Pereira as well as head coach Louis Mendonca, are Goan and not Sikh, so they won't be wearing turbans in the opening ceremonies.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Kahlon was born and raised in Victoria but said he is cognizant of the immigrant experience and it's that part of Canada he has chosen to celebrate when marching into the massive 91,000-seat Bird's Nest Stadium Friday behind Canadian flag bearer and kayaker Adam van Koeverden, of Oakville, Ont.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"My dad had to cut his beard and lose his turban to get a job when he came to Canada (in 1970)," said Kahlon. "Now we can choose to wear a turban or not and it doesn't affect anybody making a living. Now we can celebrate that evolution of our country. During the opening ceremonies, I want people to think about Canadians coming in all kinds of packages, and yet we're all still Canadians."[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Team Canada captain, Rob Short of Victoria, is supportive and any small grumbling there may on the team will have to go through him. Short and the Kahlons go back a long way. There is a well-dented garage door in the Gordon Head area of suburban Victoria that tells the tale of a journey to the Beijing Games. That's where brothers Rob and Pete Short, along with Kahlon, played their no-holds barred road hockey games in front of the Kahlon family home.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"The Sikh community in B.C. has been very good to us - it raised $15,000 in one weekend to help in our preparations for Beijing - and as captain, I have no problem with this (turbans in the opening ceremonies)," said Short.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"We all bring something of our backgrounds to our national team and as Canadians at the Olympics. This is a part of who Ravi, Bindi, Ranjeev and Gabbar are. My parents are English and that's why I came to play field hockey and not ice hockey."[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Pete Short even takes it one step further.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"Pete asked if he could wear a turban, too, during the opening ceremonies," chuckled Kahlon.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"I said maybe when we get back to Canada and have our post-Games party."[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]And you don't even have to ask the colour of the opening ceremonies turbans.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"Canadian red, of course," said Kahlon.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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