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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)
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Cohn: Sikh Separatists Out Of Touch With Homeland
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 125585" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800818--cohn-sikh-separatists-out-of-touch-with-homeland" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800818--cohn-sikh-separatists-out-of-touch-with-homeland</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Cohn: Sikh separatists out of touch with homeland</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">April 27, 2010</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy"><strong>Martin Regg Cohn - Deputy Editorial Page Editor - The Star, Toronto, ON</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: navy">Police came out in force, deployed for a weekend parade by as many as 100,000 Sikhs marching through the streets of downtown Toronto. The media also took up positions for potentially the biggest story in town on a slow news day.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">It’s been a bad news month for Canada’s Sikhs: a bungled B.C. parade that glorified Sikh separatists and terrorists as martyrs; sinister warnings for politicians to stay away; death threats on Facebook; and unseemly brawls in Brampton.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Against that backdrop, it’s worth taking stock of all the bad news swirling around Sikhs — and stacking it up against the reality on the ground. Not just in Canada, but in India’s Punjab, the inspiration for much of the recent tension in B.C.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">As much as some Sikh Canadians cling to the dream of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">Khalistan</span></u></a><span style="color: navy"> — a separate Sikh homeland — it exists only as a historical footnote in India. Despite the distant rumblings in Canada, all is quiet in Khalistan.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">A quarter-century ago, the epicentre of Punjab’s political earthquake was the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=Golden+Temple&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=qgLWS6DMCIO0NrG_idMD&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">Golden Temple</span></u></a><span style="color: navy"> in Amritsar, near the border with Pakistan. Revered by pious Sikhs, it is now cultivated assiduously by visiting Canadian politicians harvesting votes back home.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Premier Dalton McGuinty paid his respects at the temple, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made the pilgrimage and Jean Chrétien before him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">Pilgrims and politicians alike circumambulate barefoot along its white marble tiles, beneath copper-plated roofs overlaid with 100 kilograms of gold foil. Turbaned worshippers bathe in calming waters of the pool of immortality.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">But the walls are still pockmarked by bullet holes, vestiges of the 1984 battle that pitted armed militants against Indian army forces, leaving 1,000 dead. The insurgency spread like wildfire across the plains of the Punjab, claiming an estimated 17,000 lives.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Ordinary Sikhs played a decisive role when they turned against a movement beset by terrorist violence. There were human rights violations on both sides. But by the 1990s, the police were gathering vital intelligence from villagers and beat back the militants.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Today, the Punjab is at peace. And Khalistan is long forgotten.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Since 2005, India has been ruled by a Sikh prime minister, </span><a href="http://pmindia.nic.in/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">Manmohan Singh</span></u></a><span style="color: navy">; from 2005 to 2007 the army was also helmed by a Sikh, Joginder Jaswant Singh. Sikhs could hardly claim they were being ruled by outsiders when their brethren were running the country — and the army.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Over the years, Sikh separatists have made their peace with the rest of India. When Chrétien visited the Golden Temple in 2003, his host was Manjit Singh Kalkatta, an erstwhile Sikh separatist.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">When I returned to Amritsar two years later to write about the movement, I sat down with Kalkatta, a preacher and firebrand politician. He was still bitter about how separatism had been beaten back, but acknowledged that most Punjabis were enormously proud that one of their own had become prime minister.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">At the time, the high priest of the Golden Temple, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, told me that Sikhs wanted greater autonomy but the separatist movement had lost its way.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">"The violence was not accepted by the Punjabi masses, so it was unsustainable," he said, speaking in his capacity as Jathedar Akal Takht — the world’s highest Sikh authority. "We don’t want to be separate from the Indian nation, because we are very much part of the Indian nation."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">So how can Canada still be incubating a virulent strain of Sikh separatism, while in India all is quiet? Why is it that an Indian prime minister, who happens to be a Sikh, has to take Canada’s prime minister aside to warn him about the activities of separatist militants on our soil?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">One of the shortcomings of living in the diaspora is that you live at such a great distance from the daily lives of the people you left behind. If separatists in the Punjab have given up their dream, so too should their fellow travellers in the Canadian diaspora.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Not only are they desperately out of touch with the politics of the Punjab, they are on a different wavelength from their fellow Sikh Canadians in the mainstream.</span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="color: navy">Martin Regg Cohn writes Tuesday.</span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 125585, member: 884"] [URL="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800818--cohn-sikh-separatists-out-of-touch-with-homeland"][U][COLOR=navy]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800818--cohn-sikh-separatists-out-of-touch-with-homeland[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [B][SIZE=6][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Cohn: Sikh separatists out of touch with homeland[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=navy]April 27, 2010[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][B]Martin Regg Cohn - Deputy Editorial Page Editor - The Star, Toronto, ON[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy] [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Police came out in force, deployed for a weekend parade by as many as 100,000 Sikhs marching through the streets of downtown Toronto. The media also took up positions for potentially the biggest story in town on a slow news day.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]It’s been a bad news month for Canada’s Sikhs: a bungled B.C. parade that glorified Sikh separatists and terrorists as martyrs; sinister warnings for politicians to stay away; death threats on Facebook; and unseemly brawls in Brampton.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Against that backdrop, it’s worth taking stock of all the bad news swirling around Sikhs — and stacking it up against the reality on the ground. Not just in Canada, but in India’s Punjab, the inspiration for much of the recent tension in B.C.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]As much as some Sikh Canadians cling to the dream of [/COLOR][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement"][U][COLOR=navy]Khalistan[/COLOR][/U][/url][COLOR=navy] — a separate Sikh homeland — it exists only as a historical footnote in India. 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Turbaned worshippers bathe in calming waters of the pool of immortality.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]But the walls are still pockmarked by bullet holes, vestiges of the 1984 battle that pitted armed militants against Indian army forces, leaving 1,000 dead. The insurgency spread like wildfire across the plains of the Punjab, claiming an estimated 17,000 lives.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Ordinary Sikhs played a decisive role when they turned against a movement beset by terrorist violence. There were human rights violations on both sides. But by the 1990s, the police were gathering vital intelligence from villagers and beat back the militants.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Today, the Punjab is at peace. And Khalistan is long forgotten.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Since 2005, India has been ruled by a Sikh prime minister, [/COLOR][URL="http://pmindia.nic.in/"][U][COLOR=navy]Manmohan Singh[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy]; from 2005 to 2007 the army was also helmed by a Sikh, Joginder Jaswant Singh. Sikhs could hardly claim they were being ruled by outsiders when their brethren were running the country — and the army.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Over the years, Sikh separatists have made their peace with the rest of India. When Chrétien visited the Golden Temple in 2003, his host was Manjit Singh Kalkatta, an erstwhile Sikh separatist.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]When I returned to Amritsar two years later to write about the movement, I sat down with Kalkatta, a preacher and firebrand politician. He was still bitter about how separatism had been beaten back, but acknowledged that most Punjabis were enormously proud that one of their own had become prime minister.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]At the time, the high priest of the Golden Temple, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, told me that Sikhs wanted greater autonomy but the separatist movement had lost its way.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"The violence was not accepted by the Punjabi masses, so it was unsustainable," he said, speaking in his capacity as Jathedar Akal Takht — the world’s highest Sikh authority. "We don’t want to be separate from the Indian nation, because we are very much part of the Indian nation."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]So how can Canada still be incubating a virulent strain of Sikh separatism, while in India all is quiet? Why is it that an Indian prime minister, who happens to be a Sikh, has to take Canada’s prime minister aside to warn him about the activities of separatist militants on our soil?[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]One of the shortcomings of living in the diaspora is that you live at such a great distance from the daily lives of the people you left behind. If separatists in the Punjab have given up their dream, so too should their fellow travellers in the Canadian diaspora.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Not only are they desperately out of touch with the politics of the Punjab, they are on a different wavelength from their fellow Sikh Canadians in the mainstream.[/COLOR] [I][COLOR=navy]Martin Regg Cohn writes Tuesday.[/COLOR][/I] [/QUOTE]
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