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Gurbani (14-53)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
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Bara Maha (133-136)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
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Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
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Chhant (435-462)
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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)
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Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
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Gurbani (557-564)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 151134" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Cameron deploys 10,000 more police to stop London riots</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">By Anthony Faiola, Updated: Tuesday, August 9, 2:40 PM</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>LONDON</strong> — Pockets of London went into lockdown Tuesday, with shops closing, a surge of 16,000 police officers taking to the streets and helicopters buzzing overhead as a stunned Britain began running the calculus of the worst civil disturbances to rock the nation in a generation.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">With London jails filled to capacity and fresh violence erupting in Manchester, Birmingham and other parts Britain, the government faced the challenge of maintaining law and order in a country where the sense of security had suddenly shattered. After a glorious spring that saw a royal wedding celebrate all things British, the riots piled on to a summer of discontent plagued by phone hacking scandals, painful austerity and stock market drops. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">At the same time, the trail of destruction after three nights of mob rule in sectors of the capital and other British cities left the nation confronting an over-arching question: Why? </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On a street corner in Hackney, site of some of the worst riots on Monday, Sivaharan Kanbiah, a 39-year-old Sri Lankan immigrant, stood shell-shocked outside his ransacked convenience store as some residents packed bags and fled in fear. “You work all your life, and in one night, they come and destroy it,” he said. “They did not just steal everything. They tore out the ceiling. They broke up the floor. They ripped out the shelves. I don’t understand such hate.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">He paused, turned to one side, silently gathering himself. He voice cracked as he continued, “I have a wife, two children and a mother to support. Now I have no way to do it. They took my life and I can’t replace it. We’ll be turned out on the street. I want to know why. Why?”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But there were no easy answers.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The rioting was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a black resident of North London last week. But many observers say that incident alone could not explain the multi-racial rampage of burning and looting across the sprawling capital. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Some voices immediately saw a culprit in growing inequality, poor police relations with minorities and especially the Conservative-led government’s austerity drive that was robbing disenfranchised youths of educational subsidies and youth centers as the economy teetered on the verge of recession. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In London, a handful of looters who spoke out talked of a lack of respect for the young and the poor, raging against an increasingly affluent city that had left them behind.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“This did not come from nowhere,” said Diane Abbott, an opposition Labor Party lawmaker from Hackney, where shops closed and public buildings were evacuated at mid-day . “The public sector is the biggest employer in Hackney. Now you have kids wondering if their mum will have a job. It’s not all about race. But it is about rich and poor.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Yet the vast majority of the austerity measures – which the government would now face new challenges in seeing through -- have yet to come into effect, leading some to question whether they truly played a role. And just as many voices blamed a weak police response and a breakdown of family values years in the making for giving rise to a class of directionless youth. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Youth culture </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Whatever the reason, the riots exposed a desperate youth culture buried inside society here, linked to one another as never before through BlackBerry messenger and social networking sites like Twitter. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In one BlackBerry message circulating around London on Monday, for instance, a rioter called others to arms in the famous shopping district of Oxford Circus: “Everyone run wild, all of London and others are invited! Pure terror and havoc & Free stuff. Just smash shop windows and cart out da stuff u want!”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The violence here differed markedly from the kind of recent, politically charged protests seen in, say, Greece and Spain in response to hard economic times. In Britain, the rage appeared blind, apolitical and profoundly selfish. They set alight a historic department store, and a Sony distribution center as well as tiny, family-owned groceries. They burned the bikes of poor residents, and the cars of richer ones. One gang of masked thugs burst into a fashionable Notting Hill eatery to rob diners, clashing with restaurant workers wielding rolling pins. Others rioters simply fought one another.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Closed circuit cameras captured a young man, seriously injured and semi-conscious, struggling to his feet amid the chaos in East London last night. A group of looters seemed to comfort him, before one of them casually opened the boy’s backpack and robbed him as he helplessly watched. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On Tuesday evening, a committee investigating the death of Mark Duggan, the 29-year-old shot by police last Thursday in Tottenham, released information indicating he never fired his gun. Some feared the news could incite more violence. But on Tuesday night, London itself appeared relatively calm, though police were fighting new running battles with rioters in Manchester and Birmingham. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“This is serious stuff, and it is going to impact the government — it is not good for a government to be seen not to be in control of the country,” said Tony Travers, a political analyst with the London School of Economics. “But it’s hard to see this as something that’s just developed since the current government came to power in May 2009. It’s the kind of disturbing criminality that seemed to be bubbling for years.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Cameron’s response </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Nevertheless, the riots presented a stark challenge to the Conservative-led government embarking on historic budget cuts and now facing the public’s wrath over the handling of the riots. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Prime Minister David Cameron, who had been on vacation in Italy until Monday night, cut short his trip to return to London. He called an emergency session of Parliament for Thursday and announced an almost tripling of police on the streets of London. Cameron decried the “sickening scenes” of gangs of youths looting shops, setting businesses ablaze and clashing with police in neighborhoods across London. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Effectively acknowledging that the embattled Metropolitan Police had been overwhelmed — images showed riot police standing by as youths looted and set buildings ablaze — Cameron said a force some 16,000 strong would take to the streets on Tuesday, up from 6,000 on Monday night.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But he did not appear to immediately embrace calls by some to deploy the army or water cannons to restore order. And after more than 450 arrests, authorities said prisons in London were already reaching capacity, leading the newly detained to be bussed to jails outside the capital. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">His deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, was booed and catcalled during an appearance in Birmingham. Boris Johnson, London’s Conservative mayor who had cut short his own trip to Australia as the riots intensified, was booed by some in the middle-class Clapham neighborhood where 20 police officers were unable to contain 200 looters Monday night.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Though facing new questions over social exclusion, Johnson and other Conservatives dismissed the riots had been anything other than product of poor parenting, wanting morals and misdirected anger.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“We’ve got to reclaim our streets,” Johnson said, later adding, “It is time that we heard a little bit less about the sociological justifications for wanton criminality.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em>Special correspondent Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi contributed to this report.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">© The Washington Post Company</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cameron-deploys-10000-more-police-to-stop-london-riots/2011/08/09/gIQAqz2B4I_print.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cameron-deploys-10000-more-police-to-stop-london-riots/2011/08/09/gIQAqz2B4I_print.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 151134, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]Cameron deploys 10,000 more police to stop London riots[/SIZE][/B] By Anthony Faiola, Updated: Tuesday, August 9, 2:40 PM [B]LONDON[/B] — Pockets of London went into lockdown Tuesday, with shops closing, a surge of 16,000 police officers taking to the streets and helicopters buzzing overhead as a stunned Britain began running the calculus of the worst civil disturbances to rock the nation in a generation. With London jails filled to capacity and fresh violence erupting in Manchester, Birmingham and other parts Britain, the government faced the challenge of maintaining law and order in a country where the sense of security had suddenly shattered. After a glorious spring that saw a royal wedding celebrate all things British, the riots piled on to a summer of discontent plagued by phone hacking scandals, painful austerity and stock market drops. At the same time, the trail of destruction after three nights of mob rule in sectors of the capital and other British cities left the nation confronting an over-arching question: Why? On a street corner in Hackney, site of some of the worst riots on Monday, Sivaharan Kanbiah, a 39-year-old Sri Lankan immigrant, stood shell-shocked outside his ransacked convenience store as some residents packed bags and fled in fear. “You work all your life, and in one night, they come and destroy it,” he said. “They did not just steal everything. They tore out the ceiling. They broke up the floor. They ripped out the shelves. I don’t understand such hate.” He paused, turned to one side, silently gathering himself. He voice cracked as he continued, “I have a wife, two children and a mother to support. Now I have no way to do it. They took my life and I can’t replace it. We’ll be turned out on the street. I want to know why. Why?” But there were no easy answers. The rioting was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a black resident of North London last week. But many observers say that incident alone could not explain the multi-racial rampage of burning and looting across the sprawling capital. Some voices immediately saw a culprit in growing inequality, poor police relations with minorities and especially the Conservative-led government’s austerity drive that was robbing disenfranchised youths of educational subsidies and youth centers as the economy teetered on the verge of recession. In London, a handful of looters who spoke out talked of a lack of respect for the young and the poor, raging against an increasingly affluent city that had left them behind. “This did not come from nowhere,” said Diane Abbott, an opposition Labor Party lawmaker from Hackney, where shops closed and public buildings were evacuated at mid-day . “The public sector is the biggest employer in Hackney. Now you have kids wondering if their mum will have a job. It’s not all about race. But it is about rich and poor.” Yet the vast majority of the austerity measures – which the government would now face new challenges in seeing through -- have yet to come into effect, leading some to question whether they truly played a role. And just as many voices blamed a weak police response and a breakdown of family values years in the making for giving rise to a class of directionless youth. [B]Youth culture [/B] Whatever the reason, the riots exposed a desperate youth culture buried inside society here, linked to one another as never before through BlackBerry messenger and social networking sites like Twitter. In one BlackBerry message circulating around London on Monday, for instance, a rioter called others to arms in the famous shopping district of Oxford Circus: “Everyone run wild, all of London and others are invited! Pure terror and havoc & Free stuff. Just smash shop windows and cart out da stuff u want!” The violence here differed markedly from the kind of recent, politically charged protests seen in, say, Greece and Spain in response to hard economic times. In Britain, the rage appeared blind, apolitical and profoundly selfish. They set alight a historic department store, and a Sony distribution center as well as tiny, family-owned groceries. They burned the bikes of poor residents, and the cars of richer ones. One gang of masked thugs burst into a fashionable Notting Hill eatery to rob diners, clashing with restaurant workers wielding rolling pins. Others rioters simply fought one another. Closed circuit cameras captured a young man, seriously injured and semi-conscious, struggling to his feet amid the chaos in East London last night. A group of looters seemed to comfort him, before one of them casually opened the boy’s backpack and robbed him as he helplessly watched. On Tuesday evening, a committee investigating the death of Mark Duggan, the 29-year-old shot by police last Thursday in Tottenham, released information indicating he never fired his gun. Some feared the news could incite more violence. But on Tuesday night, London itself appeared relatively calm, though police were fighting new running battles with rioters in Manchester and Birmingham. “This is serious stuff, and it is going to impact the government — it is not good for a government to be seen not to be in control of the country,” said Tony Travers, a political analyst with the London School of Economics. “But it’s hard to see this as something that’s just developed since the current government came to power in May 2009. It’s the kind of disturbing criminality that seemed to be bubbling for years.” [B]Cameron’s response [/B] Nevertheless, the riots presented a stark challenge to the Conservative-led government embarking on historic budget cuts and now facing the public’s wrath over the handling of the riots. Prime Minister David Cameron, who had been on vacation in Italy until Monday night, cut short his trip to return to London. He called an emergency session of Parliament for Thursday and announced an almost tripling of police on the streets of London. Cameron decried the “sickening scenes” of gangs of youths looting shops, setting businesses ablaze and clashing with police in neighborhoods across London. Effectively acknowledging that the embattled Metropolitan Police had been overwhelmed — images showed riot police standing by as youths looted and set buildings ablaze — Cameron said a force some 16,000 strong would take to the streets on Tuesday, up from 6,000 on Monday night. But he did not appear to immediately embrace calls by some to deploy the army or water cannons to restore order. And after more than 450 arrests, authorities said prisons in London were already reaching capacity, leading the newly detained to be bussed to jails outside the capital. His deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, was booed and catcalled during an appearance in Birmingham. Boris Johnson, London’s Conservative mayor who had cut short his own trip to Australia as the riots intensified, was booed by some in the middle-class Clapham neighborhood where 20 police officers were unable to contain 200 looters Monday night. Though facing new questions over social exclusion, Johnson and other Conservatives dismissed the riots had been anything other than product of poor parenting, wanting morals and misdirected anger. “We’ve got to reclaim our streets,” Johnson said, later adding, “It is time that we heard a little bit less about the sociological justifications for wanton criminality.” [I]Special correspondent Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi contributed to this report.[/I] © The Washington Post Company [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cameron-deploys-10000-more-police-to-stop-london-riots/2011/08/09/gIQAqz2B4I_print.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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