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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)
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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Youth Drug Addiction Crisis Ravages Punjab's Heartlands
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 128544" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #002060">Youth drug addiction crisis </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #002060">ravages Punjab's heartlands</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">By Rahul Bedi - <strong>4:00 AM</strong> Thursday Jun 17, 2010 </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">India's northern Punjab province is on the verge of a crisis as large numbers of its youth are hooked hopelessly on to drugs such as opium, heroin and a range of synthetic painkillers. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"Punjab is teetering on the edge of an extraordinary human crisis, with an inordinately large number of youngsters imbibing marijuana, opium and heroin in addition to ingesting prescriptive tablets," said Raj Pal Meena, head of the state's Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) in Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The threat from drugs, he added, was bigger and even more dangerous than the two decades of Sikh terrorism that had ravaged the province until the early 1990s, in which over 60,000 people died, as it was far more insidious and could not be rectified merely by policing. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">According to the ANTF, all of Punjab's 20 districts, particularly those bordering Pakistan, were infested with drug dealers selling contraband such as opium and heroin smuggled across the frontier and from further afield in Afghanistan. ANTF officials said a large proportion of the 500kg of heroin seized in the state last year was for local consumption, while the rest was for onward transportation to Western markets. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">But they stress these seizures represent a small proportion of the narcotic that made it profitably to the user. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"In rural Punjab, families often try to pass off a drug overdose death either as suicide or an overdose of prescriptive medicines for chronic ailments," Meena said. The entire state seems to be in denial over its drug addiction, he said. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>Punjab's grievous drug problem was revealed recently in a report by Guru Nanak University in Punjab's largest city, Amritsar, which declared that some 73.5 per cent of the state's youth aged between 16 and 35 years were confirmed drug addicts.</strong> </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The study said young people in villages were more prone to drug abuse and attributed this to high unemployment, social tensions and easily-available narcotics. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Shrinking land holdings and limited educational facilities further exacerbated the problem by spawning a generation of disenchanted youth who felt inadequate and lacked self-esteem. This in turn resulted in drug-hooked youngsters graduating from indulging in petty crime to undertaking contract killings for small sums that paid for their next fix.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">In this chauvinistic state, there was also the widespread belief that opium increased sexual potency and, during harvest time, the belief that the opiate helped people work tirelessly. </span></p><p><span style="color: #002060">"Despite Punjab's drug epidemic, the Government has initiated no formal plan to counter it," Punjab journalist Asit Jolly said. The few groups trying to organise detoxification programmes were run by religious sects and a handful of non-governmental organisations.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Efforts at trying to manage Punjab's drug trade were further hampered by the direct involvement of the police.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Last year, authorities arrested a senior Narcotics Control Board officer for running a major drug-peddling operation in Punjab, valued at billions of rupees. He is under prosecution but the syndicate of which he was a part is reportedly still active.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Earlier in the nearly two-decade long Sikh insurgency, a nexus evolved between narcotic smugglers from Pakistan and local insurgent groups, who used the proceeds to fund their "war of liberation" for an independent Sikh homeland. The victims they spawned en route have created a a contagion that Punjab is ignoring at its peril.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">By Rahul Bedi</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>source:</strong> </span><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10652338&ref=rss" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #002060">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10652338&ref=rss</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 128544, member: 884"] [B][SIZE=6][SIZE=5][COLOR=#002060]Youth drug addiction crisis [/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=6][SIZE=5][COLOR=#002060]ravages Punjab's heartlands[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=#002060]By Rahul Bedi - [B]4:00 AM[/B] Thursday Jun 17, 2010 [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]India's northern Punjab province is on the verge of a crisis as large numbers of its youth are hooked hopelessly on to drugs such as opium, heroin and a range of synthetic painkillers. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"Punjab is teetering on the edge of an extraordinary human crisis, with an inordinately large number of youngsters imbibing marijuana, opium and heroin in addition to ingesting prescriptive tablets," said Raj Pal Meena, head of the state's Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) in Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The threat from drugs, he added, was bigger and even more dangerous than the two decades of Sikh terrorism that had ravaged the province until the early 1990s, in which over 60,000 people died, as it was far more insidious and could not be rectified merely by policing. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]According to the ANTF, all of Punjab's 20 districts, particularly those bordering Pakistan, were infested with drug dealers selling contraband such as opium and heroin smuggled across the frontier and from further afield in Afghanistan. ANTF officials said a large proportion of the 500kg of heroin seized in the state last year was for local consumption, while the rest was for onward transportation to Western markets. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]But they stress these seizures represent a small proportion of the narcotic that made it profitably to the user. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"In rural Punjab, families often try to pass off a drug overdose death either as suicide or an overdose of prescriptive medicines for chronic ailments," Meena said. The entire state seems to be in denial over its drug addiction, he said. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]Punjab's grievous drug problem was revealed recently in a report by Guru Nanak University in Punjab's largest city, Amritsar, which declared that some 73.5 per cent of the state's youth aged between 16 and 35 years were confirmed drug addicts.[/B] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The study said young people in villages were more prone to drug abuse and attributed this to high unemployment, social tensions and easily-available narcotics. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Shrinking land holdings and limited educational facilities further exacerbated the problem by spawning a generation of disenchanted youth who felt inadequate and lacked self-esteem. This in turn resulted in drug-hooked youngsters graduating from indulging in petty crime to undertaking contract killings for small sums that paid for their next fix.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]In this chauvinistic state, there was also the widespread belief that opium increased sexual potency and, during harvest time, the belief that the opiate helped people work tirelessly. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"Despite Punjab's drug epidemic, the Government has initiated no formal plan to counter it," Punjab journalist Asit Jolly said. The few groups trying to organise detoxification programmes were run by religious sects and a handful of non-governmental organisations.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Efforts at trying to manage Punjab's drug trade were further hampered by the direct involvement of the police.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Last year, authorities arrested a senior Narcotics Control Board officer for running a major drug-peddling operation in Punjab, valued at billions of rupees. He is under prosecution but the syndicate of which he was a part is reportedly still active.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Earlier in the nearly two-decade long Sikh insurgency, a nexus evolved between narcotic smugglers from Pakistan and local insurgent groups, who used the proceeds to fund their "war of liberation" for an independent Sikh homeland. The victims they spawned en route have created a a contagion that Punjab is ignoring at its peril.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]By Rahul Bedi[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]source:[/B] [/COLOR][URL="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10652338&ref=rss"][U][COLOR=#002060]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10652338&ref=rss[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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