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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
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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="kaur-1" data-source="post: 51420" data-attributes="member: 3025"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>Waheguru ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru ji Ki Fateh</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>I was watching a UK BBC program titled "Cooking in the Danger Zone" last night and was quite shocked and upset at what I saw.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></span></p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/6321203.stm" target="_blank">BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Cooking in the Danger Zone</a></em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Producer: Marc Perkins</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Executive producer: Will Daws</strong> </span> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">INDIA</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42522000/jpg/_42522595_india203.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> Wednesday, 21 February, 2007 </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> 2030 GMT on BBC Four</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px">In India Stefan visits some of the world's poorest and most oppressed people. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px">More than 160 million people in the country are classed as Dalits and are considered "Untouchable". </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">Tainted by their birth they enter a caste system that condemns them to an inescapable cycle of poverty, illiteracy and oppression. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">Nowhere is this discrimination more evident than with food. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px">The "Untouchables" are not allowed to eat in the same places or even touch the same plates of other castes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">Stefan ventures to India's most lawless state, Bihar, to meet Dalits who work the land. He meets a particular sub-caste known as "Rat-Eaters" and joins them in the fields where they live up to their name: catching, roasting and eating rat. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">But it is not only poverty and discrimination they face. Stefan tracks down an "upper caste army" whose aim is to keep the Dalits in their place, often violently attacking them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">Stefan then heads to India's "City of Dreams", Mumbai. Here he visits the city's most exclusive and expensive restaurant, to see at first hand India's rapidly expanding middle class with money to burn. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">But he also sees another side to the city when he visits the largest slum in Asia, home to thousands of Dalits trying to find a way out of the caste discrimination. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-size: 10px">He also meets Bale Rao, a Dalit who now works as a tiffinwala, delivering lunch-boxes on his bicycle to middle-class office workers around the city.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>Why isnt anyone in India listening to Guru Nanak ji's teaching regarding caste?</strong> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue">I did a search on youtube and the first video I found was this !! Another shock!</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p>Video: <span style="font-size: 10px">www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxSdru59NVs</span></p><p><strong><em>Bant Singh is a revolutionary singer in Punjab, India, whose 2 years old daughter was raped by upper caste men. When he sought justice, they cut of his limbs. But he can still sing, and in this video letter he expresses no self-pity.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Blog:</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em><a href="http://punjabdalitsolidarity.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html" target="_blank">Punjab Dalit Solidarity: February 2006</a></em></span></p><p><em><strong>"There are also several Dalit gurudwaras in Punjab, as the upper castes would not allow them to worship in others. As another character in Bhardwaj’s film says, “So many Gurus have come and gone but the Dalits are still where they were.”</strong></em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>A Sikh is a Sikh! Why do people still go on about being upper caste and believe in the caste system. And who are this so called upper caste Sikhs. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>There should not even be a term such as an "upper caste Sikh"!! </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Blue"><strong>Disgraceful and shameful !!!!!!!!</strong></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"><em></em></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"><em>Source:<a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/13/india15303.htm" target="_blank">India: ‘Hidden Apartheid’ of Discrimination Against Dalits (Human Rights Watch, 13-2-2007)</a></em></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"><em></em></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"><em></em></span></span>"</span></span></span><strong>On December 27, 2006 Manmohan Singh became the first sitting Indian prime minister to </strong><strong>openly acknowledge the parallel between the practice of “untouchability” and the<span style="color: Red"> crime of apartheid.</span> Singh <span style="color: Red">described “untouchability” as a “blot on humanity” </span>adding that “even after 60 years of constitutional and legal protection and state support, there is still social discrimination against Dalits in many parts of our country.” </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>“Prime Minister Singh has rightly compared ‘untouchability’ to apartheid, and he should now turn his words into action to protect the rights of Dalits,” said Professor Smita Narula, faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law, and co-author of the report. “The Indian government can no longer deny its collusion in maintaining a system of entrenched social and economic segregation.” "</strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> ----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> ----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> ----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> ----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> ----------------------------------------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kaur-1, post: 51420, member: 3025"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue][B]Waheguru ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru ji Ki Fateh I was watching a UK BBC program titled "Cooking in the Danger Zone" last night and was quite shocked and upset at what I saw.[/B] [/COLOR][/SIZE] [I]Source: [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/6321203.stm"]BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Cooking in the Danger Zone[/URL][/I] [SIZE=2][B]Producer: Marc Perkins[/B] [B]Executive producer: Will Daws[/B] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]INDIA[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42522000/jpg/_42522595_india203.jpg[/IMG] Wednesday, 21 February, 2007 2030 GMT on BBC Four [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]In India Stefan visits some of the world's poorest and most oppressed people. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]More than 160 million people in the country are classed as Dalits and are considered "Untouchable". [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Tainted by their birth they enter a caste system that condemns them to an inescapable cycle of poverty, illiteracy and oppression. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Nowhere is this discrimination more evident than with food. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]The "Untouchables" are not allowed to eat in the same places or even touch the same plates of other castes. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Stefan ventures to India's most lawless state, Bihar, to meet Dalits who work the land. He meets a particular sub-caste known as "Rat-Eaters" and joins them in the fields where they live up to their name: catching, roasting and eating rat. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]But it is not only poverty and discrimination they face. Stefan tracks down an "upper caste army" whose aim is to keep the Dalits in their place, often violently attacking them. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Stefan then heads to India's "City of Dreams", Mumbai. Here he visits the city's most exclusive and expensive restaurant, to see at first hand India's rapidly expanding middle class with money to burn. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]But he also sees another side to the city when he visits the largest slum in Asia, home to thousands of Dalits trying to find a way out of the caste discrimination. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]He also meets Bale Rao, a Dalit who now works as a tiffinwala, delivering lunch-boxes on his bicycle to middle-class office workers around the city.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2][SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue][B]Why isnt anyone in India listening to Guru Nanak ji's teaching regarding caste?[/B] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue]I did a search on youtube and the first video I found was this !! Another shock![/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] Video: [SIZE=2]www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxSdru59NVs[/SIZE] [B][I]Bant Singh is a revolutionary singer in Punjab, India, whose 2 years old daughter was raped by upper caste men. When he sought justice, they cut of his limbs. But he can still sing, and in this video letter he expresses no self-pity.[/I][/B] Blog: [SIZE=2][I][URL="http://punjabdalitsolidarity.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html"]Punjab Dalit Solidarity: February 2006[/URL][/I][/SIZE] [I][B]"There are also several Dalit gurudwaras in Punjab, as the upper castes would not allow them to worship in others. As another character in Bhardwaj’s film says, “So many Gurus have come and gone but the Dalits are still where they were.”[/B][/I] [SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue][B]A Sikh is a Sikh! Why do people still go on about being upper caste and believe in the caste system. And who are this so called upper caste Sikhs. [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue][B]There should not even be a term such as an "upper caste Sikh"!! [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue][B]Disgraceful and shameful !!!!!!!![/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=Blue][SIZE=3][SIZE=2][COLOR=Black][I] Source:[URL="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/13/india15303.htm"]India: ‘Hidden Apartheid’ of Discrimination Against Dalits (Human Rights Watch, 13-2-2007)[/URL] [/I][/COLOR][/SIZE]"[/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][B]On December 27, 2006 Manmohan Singh became the first sitting Indian prime minister to [/B][B]openly acknowledge the parallel between the practice of “untouchability” and the[COLOR=Red] crime of apartheid.[/COLOR] Singh [COLOR=Red]described “untouchability” as a “blot on humanity” [/COLOR]adding that “even after 60 years of constitutional and legal protection and state support, there is still social discrimination against Dalits in many parts of our country.” [/B] [B]“Prime Minister Singh has rightly compared ‘untouchability’ to apartheid, and he should now turn his words into action to protect the rights of Dalits,” said Professor Smita Narula, faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law, and co-author of the report. “The Indian government can no longer deny its collusion in maintaining a system of entrenched social and economic segregation.” "[/B] [SIZE=4][COLOR=Blue][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE] ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- [/QUOTE]
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