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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="Arvind" data-source="post: 96954" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>While googling on Sardar Lopo Sahib, came across a nice article about him and his literary activities at <a href="http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/3957/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc">www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/3957/</span></a>. </p><p> </p><p>It is pasted below for your reading pleasure:</p><p> </p><p>Sunday, 06 May 2007 </p><p><img src="http://www.punjabnewsline.com/images/stories/newsline/2007/malkiat%20singh%20lopo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A new historical novel 'The Enchanted Prison' written by Malkiat Singh (65) chronicles the little-known story of the pioneering Sikhs in Malaya and the emotional process of attachment towards their new homeland. </p><p></p><p></p><p>KAULA LUMPER: SOME time in the 1920s, a widower farmer from a village in the Indian province of Punjab travelled to Malaya with his son and daughter, seeking a better life and fortune.</p><p>Arjan Singh ended up in Rawang and found himself making a laborious living by breaking charcoal for the furnace in a powerhouse. In his spare time, he reared cattle.</p><p>His son, Bachan Singh, would later move to Prai to work as a labourer in the pier, and his daughter-in-law Balwant Kaur would tend the herd in Kampung Teluk.</p><p>Little did Arjan suspect then that his struggle would one day be told to the world by his own grandson, through a scholarly work of literature.</p><p>The Enchanted Prison, chronicles the early hardships, predicaments and successes of the Sikhs who, like other communities, helped propel Malaysia to the modern industrialised land it is today.</p><p>“We had a tough life,” recalls Malkiat Singh of his family’s past.</p><p>“Our early generations suffered. So they knew education was important. That is why their children progressed rather fast.” Based on historical facts, The Enchanted Prison expresses in a fictional plot the conditions in India and Malaya from 1873 to 1937. </p><p>“Malaya was the first country outside the Indian subcontinent that Sikhs emigrated to,” the retired school teacher explains at his home in Seberang Jaya, Penang.</p><p>“It was referred to as the golden cage or a heavenly prison.</p><p>“It was a prison because one was so enchanted by this foreign country that you were unable to return to your ownhomeland.” Malkiat’s book describes how early immigrants underwent a transformation through an emotional process of attachment that made them devoted to Malaya.</p><p>“When the first immigrants came here, they viewed Punjab with nostalgia and longing. But when they returned there years later, it had become a strange country!” Most of the early Sikh immigrants were needed by the British colonial government. While many belonged to the army and police, a steady stream of other occupations also grew — milkmen, cattle farmers, guards, craftsmen, collies and tailors.</p><p>Through fiction, Malkiat recreates a past universe borne out of a deeply endeared imagination. There is a keenness for detail that makes the old world come alive in the mind of the modern reader.</p><p>The novel is replete with images — the steam journey from Calcutta to Rangoon to Penang; the bachelor’s kongsi for contract workers; the labour work they undertook; their common kitchen; the activities at the railway; the expansion of roads and the building of houses.</p><p>Through such images, Malkiat brings out the ethos of the pioneers and their very experiences for the current generations of Malaysians.</p><p>Though specific to a particular ethnic community, the novel is easily one of the most insightful works of historical literature to have come out of Malaysia in the last few years.</p><p>Malkiat has an intimate grasp of the idiosyncrasies and mores of the early Sikh explorers in Malaya’s rural frontiers.</p><p>Ironically, Malkiat has never set foot in Punjab. Despite this, he has authored several books, including the Sikhs in Malaysia series which he co-wrote with his wife, Mukhtiar Kaur.</p><p>Malkiat has always known there is no commercial revenue forthcoming from his research.</p><p>In fact, The Enchanted Prison was originally written in 1972, but was not published due to lack of funding until recently, when his old friend Hari Singh took up the project. “It is a labour of love,” says Malkiat.</p><p>Malkiat used to write for the Singapore-based Punjabi paper Navjiwan Weekly and the KLbased Pardesi Khalsa Sevak — both now defunct.</p><p>When the latter closed in 1960, he began writing a column called Lopo Kalam (Lopo writes) for Malaya Samachar, the only local Punjabi periodical.</p><p>Known as an eccentric, his collections of old photos, patchwork quilts and traditional dolls have been displayed in exhibitions around the country.</p><p>“I have even compiled about 2,000 words from the Malay language that are also used in Punjabi,” he says proudly.</p><p>Absorbed by Punjabi folk songs (“the vocabulary is inspiring, the music can move you”), Malkiat is planning a major project for next year — the third centenary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs.</p><p>Large portions of his novel are engrossed with elaborate descriptions of weddings and even a couple of funerals — all serving to show the vibrancy of the culture then with its rituals and orthodoxy, its fashions and cuisine.</p><p>What makes the work particularly precious is that its fiction is craftily condensed as a commentary of major historical episodes of the period.</p><p>Malkiat weaves real incidents, both well-known and obscure, into an imaginary plot.</p><p>Even as it alludes to the glories of the old Sikh kingdom in India, the book dispenses much readable information — with real anecdotes and accounts — on facts like the Malay States Guides, tours by Sikh saints and freedom fighters to Malaya, journals and accounts left by travellers from that era and the politics that took place.</p><p>A sequel which deals with the period 1937 to 1955 is in the offing. Malkiat calls it an “adoption period” that was affected by Punjab’s partition between India and Pakistan, and the prospects of Merdeka.</p><p>In February, he suffered a third heart attack. The hospital he was warded at for a whole month was teeming with a steady stream of well-wishers.</p><p>“They are more than blood relations,” he says of his old friends. “They are left overs from a generation that is slowly diminishing.” </p><p>(The Enchanted Prison is available at the office of Malaya Samachar, 2nd floor, Wisma Tatt Khalsa, 24 Jalan Raja Alang, 50300 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-26930735; 012- 3690673 (Hari Singh). E-mail: <a href="mailto:samachar@streamyx.com">samachar@streamyx.com</a> This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arvind, post: 96954, member: 245"] While googling on Sardar Lopo Sahib, came across a nice article about him and his literary activities at [URL="http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/3957/"][COLOR=#0000cc]www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/3957/[/COLOR][/URL]. It is pasted below for your reading pleasure: Sunday, 06 May 2007 [IMG]http://www.punjabnewsline.com/images/stories/newsline/2007/malkiat%20singh%20lopo.jpg[/IMG]A new historical novel 'The Enchanted Prison' written by Malkiat Singh (65) chronicles the little-known story of the pioneering Sikhs in Malaya and the emotional process of attachment towards their new homeland. KAULA LUMPER: SOME time in the 1920s, a widower farmer from a village in the Indian province of Punjab travelled to Malaya with his son and daughter, seeking a better life and fortune. Arjan Singh ended up in Rawang and found himself making a laborious living by breaking charcoal for the furnace in a powerhouse. In his spare time, he reared cattle. His son, Bachan Singh, would later move to Prai to work as a labourer in the pier, and his daughter-in-law Balwant Kaur would tend the herd in Kampung Teluk. Little did Arjan suspect then that his struggle would one day be told to the world by his own grandson, through a scholarly work of literature. The Enchanted Prison, chronicles the early hardships, predicaments and successes of the Sikhs who, like other communities, helped propel Malaysia to the modern industrialised land it is today. “We had a tough life,” recalls Malkiat Singh of his family’s past. “Our early generations suffered. So they knew education was important. That is why their children progressed rather fast.” Based on historical facts, The Enchanted Prison expresses in a fictional plot the conditions in India and Malaya from 1873 to 1937. “Malaya was the first country outside the Indian subcontinent that Sikhs emigrated to,” the retired school teacher explains at his home in Seberang Jaya, Penang. “It was referred to as the golden cage or a heavenly prison. “It was a prison because one was so enchanted by this foreign country that you were unable to return to your ownhomeland.” Malkiat’s book describes how early immigrants underwent a transformation through an emotional process of attachment that made them devoted to Malaya. “When the first immigrants came here, they viewed Punjab with nostalgia and longing. But when they returned there years later, it had become a strange country!” Most of the early Sikh immigrants were needed by the British colonial government. While many belonged to the army and police, a steady stream of other occupations also grew — milkmen, cattle farmers, guards, craftsmen, collies and tailors. Through fiction, Malkiat recreates a past universe borne out of a deeply endeared imagination. There is a keenness for detail that makes the old world come alive in the mind of the modern reader. The novel is replete with images — the steam journey from Calcutta to Rangoon to Penang; the bachelor’s kongsi for contract workers; the labour work they undertook; their common kitchen; the activities at the railway; the expansion of roads and the building of houses. Through such images, Malkiat brings out the ethos of the pioneers and their very experiences for the current generations of Malaysians. Though specific to a particular ethnic community, the novel is easily one of the most insightful works of historical literature to have come out of Malaysia in the last few years. Malkiat has an intimate grasp of the idiosyncrasies and mores of the early Sikh explorers in Malaya’s rural frontiers. Ironically, Malkiat has never set foot in Punjab. Despite this, he has authored several books, including the Sikhs in Malaysia series which he co-wrote with his wife, Mukhtiar Kaur. Malkiat has always known there is no commercial revenue forthcoming from his research. In fact, The Enchanted Prison was originally written in 1972, but was not published due to lack of funding until recently, when his old friend Hari Singh took up the project. “It is a labour of love,” says Malkiat. Malkiat used to write for the Singapore-based Punjabi paper Navjiwan Weekly and the KLbased Pardesi Khalsa Sevak — both now defunct. When the latter closed in 1960, he began writing a column called Lopo Kalam (Lopo writes) for Malaya Samachar, the only local Punjabi periodical. Known as an eccentric, his collections of old photos, patchwork quilts and traditional dolls have been displayed in exhibitions around the country. “I have even compiled about 2,000 words from the Malay language that are also used in Punjabi,” he says proudly. Absorbed by Punjabi folk songs (“the vocabulary is inspiring, the music can move you”), Malkiat is planning a major project for next year — the third centenary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs. Large portions of his novel are engrossed with elaborate descriptions of weddings and even a couple of funerals — all serving to show the vibrancy of the culture then with its rituals and orthodoxy, its fashions and cuisine. What makes the work particularly precious is that its fiction is craftily condensed as a commentary of major historical episodes of the period. Malkiat weaves real incidents, both well-known and obscure, into an imaginary plot. Even as it alludes to the glories of the old Sikh kingdom in India, the book dispenses much readable information — with real anecdotes and accounts — on facts like the Malay States Guides, tours by Sikh saints and freedom fighters to Malaya, journals and accounts left by travellers from that era and the politics that took place. A sequel which deals with the period 1937 to 1955 is in the offing. Malkiat calls it an “adoption period” that was affected by Punjab’s partition between India and Pakistan, and the prospects of Merdeka. In February, he suffered a third heart attack. The hospital he was warded at for a whole month was teeming with a steady stream of well-wishers. “They are more than blood relations,” he says of his old friends. “They are left overs from a generation that is slowly diminishing.” (The Enchanted Prison is available at the office of Malaya Samachar, 2nd floor, Wisma Tatt Khalsa, 24 Jalan Raja Alang, 50300 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-26930735; 012- 3690673 (Hari Singh). E-mail: [EMAIL="samachar@streamyx.com"]samachar@streamyx.com[/EMAIL] This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it) [/QUOTE]
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