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ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
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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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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 127750" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>While American women celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pill this month, women in India are embracing a different method of contraception. By the end of the day, more than 100 million will have taken a birth control pill, but its acceptance in the world's second most populous nation has been dismally low. According to the 2005-2006 National Family Health Survey, only 49% of Indian women use modern contraceptives, and of these, only 3% are on the Pill.</p><p></p><p>Instead, among urban India's increasingly educated and independent women, it's emergency contraception that has taken over the market. The "morning after" pill brands, which include i-pill, Unwanted 72 and Preventol, are readily accessible over-the-counter drugs throughout India, as they are in at least 40 other countries, including the U.S., U.K. and Australia. "There's an alarmingly high utilization of emergency contraception, which has almost become synonymous with the i-pill," says Dr. Rishma Dhillon Pai, a consultant gynecologist at the Jaslok and Lilavati hospitals in Mumbai, and vice president of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI). (Watch a video on the Pill's influence.)</p><p></p><p>Cipla, an Indian pharmaceutical giant that offers the i-pill for $1.60, has sold an average of 200,000 units of the drug each month since 2007, according to local media reports. The i-pill outsells both condoms and other oral-contraceptive pills. For the year ending June 2009, American research firm ACNielsen valued India's emergency-contraceptive segment at over $16,850,000 — a 245% growth in sales since the i-pill's release. Last month, India's Piramal Healthcare bought the rights to the i-pill from Cipla for some $20,800,000 in an all-cash transaction.</p><p></p><p>New Delhi has promoted emergency contraception as an option for women since 2002, and made it available over the counter in 2005. But it wasn't until Cipla came out with the i-pill, in 2007, marketing it to modern young women through television and magazine advertising, that women took to it. Pai says that, when asked about their primary method of contraception, many of her young female patients say they use the i-pill. "Sometimes they're using the pill three or four times a month," she says.</p><p></p><p>In 1966, two Yale University researchers, gynecologist John McLean Morris and endocrinologist Gertrude van Wagenen, first discovered the morning-after pill, but it took years before a prescription-only version of the drug became available, launching in 1984 in the U.K. In the U.S., after much politically charged debate, the FDA approved over-the-counter sales for Plan B, manufactured by Duramed Pharmaceuticals, to women and men age 18 and older. It had been available by prescription since 1999. (See a brief history of birth control.)</p><p></p><p>But doctors and health care workers worry that young women may be at risk by taking the morning-after pill too often. "When a product is cheap, available over the counter, completely [anonymous], and is something you don't have to plan for, it's extremely convenient," says Pai. "But extreme convenience doesn't mean extreme safety or extreme rationality." Similar to Plan B in the U.S., the i-pill contains levonorgestrel, which, though generally considered safe, can cause side effects such as nausea, vomiting, weakness and menstrual changes. "I didn't realize that using the i-pill a few times a month could have negative consequences," says a 21-year-old college student who asked that her name be withheld. "There was never any need to consult a doctor about it, and it's weird talking to my mom. I just asked friends, and that's what they said they did." Doctors in India have also reported finding an increasingly high level of hormone changes in young women who are using the emergency pill three or four times a month, and are concerned that even though pregnancy may be avoided, by shunning condoms, women are making themselves vulnerable for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. "Ten years ago, I had never treated a patient with herpes," says Pai. "Now they come through regularly."</p><p></p><p>Though preventive oral contraceptives are widely regarded as the most reliable method of birth control, the Indian government's past focus on surgical female sterilization may have slowed their adoption. "Around two or three decades ago, the concern was that India's population was a burden and it needed to be controlled," says K.G. Santhya, an associate with the poverty, gender and youth program of the international nonprofit Population Council.</p><p></p><p>Now they are up against the mass advertising effort of the companies that manufacture morning-after pills. The ads, some experts say, use catchphrases like "tension free" to appeal to young women and don't emphasize that the products are meant for use in emergencies only. Though the upsurge in use of emergency contraceptives mostly affects women in India's cities, health advocates are stressing the need for educating women in both urban and rural areas about the morning-after pill, which, when used wisely, can be instrumental in changing the way women approach sex. Seventy-eight percent of pregnancies in India are unplanned, and at least 25% are unwanted, according to FOGSI.</p><p></p><p>Pai says the morning-after pill should continue to be sold over the counter. What's needed, she says, is proper sex education that covers how different contraceptives work. Pai says that many young women who see her today aren't even aware of the differences between emergency contraception and preventive oral contraceptives. So when young girls arrive at her hospital, they're already in a crisis situation. "Our system hasn't moved as fast as the girls have," she says. "The girls are leading a modern lifestyle, and our system is still stuck a whole generation behind. As a result, we're not keeping up in terms of genuinely liberating our girls."</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Source: <a href="http://www.time.com" target="_blank">Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com</a> </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 127750, member: 1"] While American women celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pill this month, women in India are embracing a different method of contraception. By the end of the day, more than 100 million will have taken a birth control pill, but its acceptance in the world's second most populous nation has been dismally low. According to the 2005-2006 National Family Health Survey, only 49% of Indian women use modern contraceptives, and of these, only 3% are on the Pill. Instead, among urban India's increasingly educated and independent women, it's emergency contraception that has taken over the market. The "morning after" pill brands, which include i-pill, Unwanted 72 and Preventol, are readily accessible over-the-counter drugs throughout India, as they are in at least 40 other countries, including the U.S., U.K. and Australia. "There's an alarmingly high utilization of emergency contraception, which has almost become synonymous with the i-pill," says Dr. Rishma Dhillon Pai, a consultant gynecologist at the Jaslok and Lilavati hospitals in Mumbai, and vice president of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI). (Watch a video on the Pill's influence.) Cipla, an Indian pharmaceutical giant that offers the i-pill for $1.60, has sold an average of 200,000 units of the drug each month since 2007, according to local media reports. The i-pill outsells both condoms and other oral-contraceptive pills. For the year ending June 2009, American research firm ACNielsen valued India's emergency-contraceptive segment at over $16,850,000 — a 245% growth in sales since the i-pill's release. Last month, India's Piramal Healthcare bought the rights to the i-pill from Cipla for some $20,800,000 in an all-cash transaction. New Delhi has promoted emergency contraception as an option for women since 2002, and made it available over the counter in 2005. But it wasn't until Cipla came out with the i-pill, in 2007, marketing it to modern young women through television and magazine advertising, that women took to it. Pai says that, when asked about their primary method of contraception, many of her young female patients say they use the i-pill. "Sometimes they're using the pill three or four times a month," she says. In 1966, two Yale University researchers, gynecologist John McLean Morris and endocrinologist Gertrude van Wagenen, first discovered the morning-after pill, but it took years before a prescription-only version of the drug became available, launching in 1984 in the U.K. In the U.S., after much politically charged debate, the FDA approved over-the-counter sales for Plan B, manufactured by Duramed Pharmaceuticals, to women and men age 18 and older. It had been available by prescription since 1999. (See a brief history of birth control.) But doctors and health care workers worry that young women may be at risk by taking the morning-after pill too often. "When a product is cheap, available over the counter, completely [anonymous], and is something you don't have to plan for, it's extremely convenient," says Pai. "But extreme convenience doesn't mean extreme safety or extreme rationality." Similar to Plan B in the U.S., the i-pill contains levonorgestrel, which, though generally considered safe, can cause side effects such as nausea, vomiting, weakness and menstrual changes. "I didn't realize that using the i-pill a few times a month could have negative consequences," says a 21-year-old college student who asked that her name be withheld. "There was never any need to consult a doctor about it, and it's weird talking to my mom. I just asked friends, and that's what they said they did." Doctors in India have also reported finding an increasingly high level of hormone changes in young women who are using the emergency pill three or four times a month, and are concerned that even though pregnancy may be avoided, by shunning condoms, women are making themselves vulnerable for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. "Ten years ago, I had never treated a patient with herpes," says Pai. "Now they come through regularly." Though preventive oral contraceptives are widely regarded as the most reliable method of birth control, the Indian government's past focus on surgical female sterilization may have slowed their adoption. "Around two or three decades ago, the concern was that India's population was a burden and it needed to be controlled," says K.G. Santhya, an associate with the poverty, gender and youth program of the international nonprofit Population Council. Now they are up against the mass advertising effort of the companies that manufacture morning-after pills. The ads, some experts say, use catchphrases like "tension free" to appeal to young women and don't emphasize that the products are meant for use in emergencies only. Though the upsurge in use of emergency contraceptives mostly affects women in India's cities, health advocates are stressing the need for educating women in both urban and rural areas about the morning-after pill, which, when used wisely, can be instrumental in changing the way women approach sex. Seventy-eight percent of pregnancies in India are unplanned, and at least 25% are unwanted, according to FOGSI. Pai says the morning-after pill should continue to be sold over the counter. What's needed, she says, is proper sex education that covers how different contraceptives work. Pai says that many young women who see her today aren't even aware of the differences between emergency contraception and preventive oral contraceptives. So when young girls arrive at her hospital, they're already in a crisis situation. "Our system hasn't moved as fast as the girls have," she says. "The girls are leading a modern lifestyle, and our system is still stuck a whole generation behind. As a result, we're not keeping up in terms of genuinely liberating our girls." [SIZE="1"]Source: [url=http://www.time.com]Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com[/url] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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