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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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 14294" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #800080"><a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=083bc166-f76b-40c9-8d76-b8e16407e624" target="_blank">http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=083bc166-f76b-40c9-8d76-b8e16407e624</a></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Curbing dowries key to halting bride scam</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Province series boosts efforts to halt practice</span></p><p> <span style="color: blue">Mike Roberts, with files from Kuljeet Kaila in Amritsar and Hardip Johal in Vancouver</span><span style="color: blue">The Province</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Thursday, October 20, 2005</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: blue">Sikh leaders are urging Sikhs to stop offering dowries for their daughters following a Province/Calgary Herald series on abandoned brides.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">And as the call went out from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikh faith's holiest shrine, three young Indian women who were interviewed as part of the series reported they have been threatened at their homes in Punjab.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">"The mass-media attention outside of India, coupled with the alarming amounts of dowries being exchanged, has led to this outcry and appeal to the public to stop," said Jaswinder Singh Bedi of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which attends to the religious and political affairs of world Sikhism.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Bedi said the committee believes the appeal to Sikhs to refrain from hosting lavish weddings and to stop providing dowries will prevent dishonest Non-Resident Indians from seeking to defraud their Indian brides.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Bedi said the size of dowries in India has become "outrageous" and families are going bankrupt to pay them.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">"It is really out of control and there needs to be a stop put to it," he said.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Even those families who don't have the means of supplying large dowries will take loans of large sums, but when those debts can't be repaid, sometimes suicide has become the only solution. It's happening more and more."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">He noted the Sikh religion does not condone dowries, which have "nothing to do with religious beliefs in Sikhism."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Balwant Sanghera, a representative of the Sikh Societies of the Lower Mainland, said the religious order is overdue.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">"I hope this has some impact," he said. "It's about time that something like this happened."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Sanghera was disheartened to learn that women who came forward with their stories of betrayal and abandonment are now the victims of intimidation and violence.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"This is very scary," he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Indian police said yesterday they sent officers to the home of one of the women, Kiranpal Kaur, after her family compound was broken into by three armed men.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"My men are down there,"</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">V. Neerja, Senior Superintendent of Police for Moga District, told The Province. "The investigation continues."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Kaur, a 25-year-old teacher who was interviewed for the series at her village home, says she received a phone call Oct. 8, shortly after her husband's family in Delta was contacted for the series.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">"The caller said, 'You've made trouble in Canada and we want to talk to you about it,'" she said.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"They asked to speak to me or my dad. They said, 'We want to see you,' but they didn't give us a contact number or address."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Two days later, shortly after midnight, the men entered the compound in the village of Charak.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"They jumped the gate and we yelled for help," Kaur said. "We were scared."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Her father, Surjeet Singh Gill, fired warning shots and the men fled.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"They ran to the road and fired back," said Kaur.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">"I didn't see their faces. They just ran away, didn't say anything.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"We wonder what would have happened if we hadn't heard them coming, if we'd stayed asleep."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Her husband, Gurjeet Singh Parmar, whom Kaur married in 2002, returned to Canada six weeks later, promising to send her sponsorship papers.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Both sides say they are trying to work things out.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Parmar says he is making arrangements to sponsor his wife.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Kaur said she will not be deterred or intimidated: I deserve my rights. As long as I live, I will fight for my rights."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Another woman in the series, Rupinder Kaur, says she has received angry calls from Canada for releasing her wedding pictures.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Her husband, Beant Singh, has also called her to reiterate his willingness to bring her to Canada.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Another alleged victim says she received a threatening call from her husband who vowed to "teach her a lesson" for sharing their story with the media.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">The Abandoned Brides series -- which looked at the plight of an estimated 30,000 young Indian women left to live in shame by their overseas husbands -- has provoked widespread reaction in the Indo-Canadian community, where it has dominated talk radio.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">"The community really congratulates The Province," said Radio India host Sukhminder Singh Cheema, adding the "hot topic" has jammed the Surrey station's phone lines.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Ninety-five per cent of callers really appreciate it and say it's a daring step and the people who are cheating and abusing the system should be exposed and punished," he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">mroberts@png.canwest.com</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: blue">© The Vancouver Province 2005</span></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhnet.com/GurbaniKirtan/tr_1306a.html" target="_blank">http://www.sikhnet.com/GurbaniKirtan/tr_1306a.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 14294, member: 884"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800080][URL="http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=083bc166-f76b-40c9-8d76-b8e16407e624"]http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=083bc166-f76b-40c9-8d76-b8e16407e624[/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#800080][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Curbing dowries key to halting bride scam[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Province series boosts efforts to halt practice[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue] [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]Mike Roberts, with files from Kuljeet Kaila in Amritsar and Hardip Johal in Vancouver[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]The Province[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Thursday, October 20, 2005[/COLOR] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][COLOR=blue]Sikh leaders are urging Sikhs to stop offering dowries for their daughters following a Province/Calgary Herald series on abandoned brides.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]And as the call went out from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikh faith's holiest shrine, three young Indian women who were interviewed as part of the series reported they have been threatened at their homes in Punjab.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"The mass-media attention outside of India, coupled with the alarming amounts of dowries being exchanged, has led to this outcry and appeal to the public to stop," said Jaswinder Singh Bedi of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which attends to the religious and political affairs of world Sikhism.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Bedi said the committee believes the appeal to Sikhs to refrain from hosting lavish weddings and to stop providing dowries will prevent dishonest Non-Resident Indians from seeking to defraud their Indian brides.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Bedi said the size of dowries in India has become "outrageous" and families are going bankrupt to pay them.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"It is really out of control and there needs to be a stop put to it," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"Even those families who don't have the means of supplying large dowries will take loans of large sums, but when those debts can't be repaid, sometimes suicide has become the only solution. It's happening more and more."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]He noted the Sikh religion does not condone dowries, which have "nothing to do with religious beliefs in Sikhism."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Balwant Sanghera, a representative of the Sikh Societies of the Lower Mainland, said the religious order is overdue.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"I hope this has some impact," he said. "It's about time that something like this happened."[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Sanghera was disheartened to learn that women who came forward with their stories of betrayal and abandonment are now the victims of intimidation and violence.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"This is very scary," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Indian police said yesterday they sent officers to the home of one of the women, Kiranpal Kaur, after her family compound was broken into by three armed men.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"My men are down there,"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]V. Neerja, Senior Superintendent of Police for Moga District, told The Province. "The investigation continues."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Kaur, a 25-year-old teacher who was interviewed for the series at her village home, says she received a phone call Oct. 8, shortly after her husband's family in Delta was contacted for the series.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"The caller said, 'You've made trouble in Canada and we want to talk to you about it,'" she said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"They asked to speak to me or my dad. They said, 'We want to see you,' but they didn't give us a contact number or address."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Two days later, shortly after midnight, the men entered the compound in the village of Charak.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"They jumped the gate and we yelled for help," Kaur said. "We were scared."[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Her father, Surjeet Singh Gill, fired warning shots and the men fled.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"They ran to the road and fired back," said Kaur.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"I didn't see their faces. They just ran away, didn't say anything.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"We wonder what would have happened if we hadn't heard them coming, if we'd stayed asleep."[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Her husband, Gurjeet Singh Parmar, whom Kaur married in 2002, returned to Canada six weeks later, promising to send her sponsorship papers.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Both sides say they are trying to work things out.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Parmar says he is making arrangements to sponsor his wife.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Kaur said she will not be deterred or intimidated: I deserve my rights. As long as I live, I will fight for my rights."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Another woman in the series, Rupinder Kaur, says she has received angry calls from Canada for releasing her wedding pictures.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Her husband, Beant Singh, has also called her to reiterate his willingness to bring her to Canada.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Another alleged victim says she received a threatening call from her husband who vowed to "teach her a lesson" for sharing their story with the media.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]The Abandoned Brides series -- which looked at the plight of an estimated 30,000 young Indian women left to live in shame by their overseas husbands -- has provoked widespread reaction in the Indo-Canadian community, where it has dominated talk radio.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"The community really congratulates The Province," said Radio India host Sukhminder Singh Cheema, adding the "hot topic" has jammed the Surrey station's phone lines.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]"Ninety-five per cent of callers really appreciate it and say it's a daring step and the people who are cheating and abusing the system should be exposed and punished," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]mroberts@png.canwest.com[/COLOR] [CENTER][COLOR=blue]© The Vancouver Province 2005[/COLOR][/CENTER] [URL="http://www.sikhnet.com/GurbaniKirtan/tr_1306a.html"][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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