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Gurbani (94-109)
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Bara Maha (133-136)
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Gurbani (151-185)
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Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
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Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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Gurbani (595-634)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
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Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
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Gurbani (721-727)
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Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
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Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
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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)
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Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
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Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
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Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
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Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
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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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Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 150156" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">July 25, 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Modern day sex-slave trade still exists in India</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em><strong>A New-Delhi-based organization is offering safe havens for girls who would otherwise have nowhere to turn</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">By Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger, Special To The Sun - July 25, 2011 </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">When Naina and Jyothi were born in the small community of Nat in India's Bihar province, it seemed their lives would follow the same path, the one traversed by their mothers, aunts, grandmothers and every woman they'd known. They were born in a brothel, into a system of intergenerational prostitution which, along with sex trafficking, enslaves more than one million women in India.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">As a child, Naina was repeatedly sold, beaten and raped, submersed in a world of sexual abuse and drug addiction. She had little contact with anyone outside of the sex trade.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Jyothi avoided this fate.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Apne Aap, a New Delhi-based NGO that combats sex trafficking, found Jyothi when she was still a child and took her to a "safe space" - in Bihar, it's a girl's hostel, in other communities it might be a mud hut or community classroom - where women are free from bondage to heal, build relationships and receive livelihood training.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">It's a cruel and reckless lottery that would save Jyothi and enslave Naina.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">When police conduct raids in India's seedy red light districts, some girls are rescued; others are moved, or hidden in the brothel's labyrinthine corridors when the manager, or "madam," is tipped off by officers seeking bribes. Those rescued are sometimes lured back by the guardians, manipulative or forceful brothel owners who come to reclaim their property.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Ruchira Gupta, president of Apne Aap and a fearless activist we intensely admire, told us about her harrowing battle - waged since she founded the organization in 2002 - to free girls from prostitution, and the death threats she's received from brothel owners upset by lost business.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"It's just hell. It's just hell on Earth," she told us.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">For 10 years, Naina endured this hell. Not even her own mother could help her. There's a Hindi word for prostitutes that have aged past their worth, adhiya. It means "half person," Gupta tells us.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Unless a daughter is supplied as a replacement, they're left in the streets - broke and often disease ridden - to die. The cycle becomes a sickening sort of family business.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">When Naina's mother finally escaped, she went back for then-15-year-old Naina, and with the help of Bihar's safe spaces program they left the brothel. They broke the cycle.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But we know that many other girls are still trapped in India's sex trade; we've spoken to them in our travels. To look into the eyes of a beautiful, pregnant teen girl and hear her say matter-of-factly that her unborn child has already been sold into prostitution is gut-wrenching to the very core. She was 16 years old with a down payment on her womb. This is a modernday slave trade.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">When the U.S. State Department released its Trafficking in Persons report last month, an annual ranking of anti-trafficking measures by country, it took India off of the Tier 2 Watch List for the first time since 2004, in part for its ratification this past May of the UN Trafficking Protocol, which will oblige the country to expand its laws. But the report also found that "pervasive corruption" impedes progress.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">India's sex trafficking industry is a sophisticated machine. Agents, pimps and crooked border guards will "wink, wink, nod, nod" girls across borders, Gupta explains. It's a ritual so pervasive and refined that once captured, girls don't bother running away.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"There's nowhere to run to."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">That's why safe spaces are vital. Apne Aap now reaches over 10,000 girls in India's red light districts with legal advice, access to education and mentorships, someone to tell them for the first time in their lives that they don't exist for someone else's pleasure.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Pamela Shifman, Director of Initiatives for Women and Girls at the NoVo Foundation, told us the physical location doesn't matter as much as the sense of hope that fills the space, or, "who girls are allowed to be and what they're allowed to feel." Jyothi and Naina dance and laugh and practice karate. It's not just a building that provides refuge from violence; it's a safe space for the whole person.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Now 20, Naina has learned to read and write Hindi and is practicing her English. She has dreams for her future now; she wants to be a filmmaker, get married and have children of her own.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">For the first time, free from the violence and exploitation she grew up with, Naina has a real chance to achieve that dream.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Craig and Marc Kielburger co-founded Free the Children. The goal of the organization is to free children from poverty and exploitation through education.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong><a href="http://www.{censored}/news/Modern+slave+trade+still+exists+India/5153638/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.{censored}/news/Modern+slave+trade+still+exists+India/5153638/story.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 150156, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] July 25, 2011 [B][SIZE="5"]Modern day sex-slave trade still exists in India[/SIZE][/B] [I][B]A New-Delhi-based organization is offering safe havens for girls who would otherwise have nowhere to turn[/B][/I] By Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger, Special To The Sun - July 25, 2011 When Naina and Jyothi were born in the small community of Nat in India's Bihar province, it seemed their lives would follow the same path, the one traversed by their mothers, aunts, grandmothers and every woman they'd known. They were born in a brothel, into a system of intergenerational prostitution which, along with sex trafficking, enslaves more than one million women in India. As a child, Naina was repeatedly sold, beaten and raped, submersed in a world of sexual abuse and drug addiction. She had little contact with anyone outside of the sex trade. Jyothi avoided this fate. Apne Aap, a New Delhi-based NGO that combats sex trafficking, found Jyothi when she was still a child and took her to a "safe space" - in Bihar, it's a girl's hostel, in other communities it might be a mud hut or community classroom - where women are free from bondage to heal, build relationships and receive livelihood training. It's a cruel and reckless lottery that would save Jyothi and enslave Naina. When police conduct raids in India's seedy red light districts, some girls are rescued; others are moved, or hidden in the brothel's labyrinthine corridors when the manager, or "madam," is tipped off by officers seeking bribes. Those rescued are sometimes lured back by the guardians, manipulative or forceful brothel owners who come to reclaim their property. Ruchira Gupta, president of Apne Aap and a fearless activist we intensely admire, told us about her harrowing battle - waged since she founded the organization in 2002 - to free girls from prostitution, and the death threats she's received from brothel owners upset by lost business. "It's just hell. It's just hell on Earth," she told us. For 10 years, Naina endured this hell. Not even her own mother could help her. There's a Hindi word for prostitutes that have aged past their worth, adhiya. It means "half person," Gupta tells us. Unless a daughter is supplied as a replacement, they're left in the streets - broke and often disease ridden - to die. The cycle becomes a sickening sort of family business. When Naina's mother finally escaped, she went back for then-15-year-old Naina, and with the help of Bihar's safe spaces program they left the brothel. They broke the cycle. But we know that many other girls are still trapped in India's sex trade; we've spoken to them in our travels. To look into the eyes of a beautiful, pregnant teen girl and hear her say matter-of-factly that her unborn child has already been sold into prostitution is gut-wrenching to the very core. She was 16 years old with a down payment on her womb. This is a modernday slave trade. When the U.S. State Department released its Trafficking in Persons report last month, an annual ranking of anti-trafficking measures by country, it took India off of the Tier 2 Watch List for the first time since 2004, in part for its ratification this past May of the UN Trafficking Protocol, which will oblige the country to expand its laws. But the report also found that "pervasive corruption" impedes progress. India's sex trafficking industry is a sophisticated machine. Agents, pimps and crooked border guards will "wink, wink, nod, nod" girls across borders, Gupta explains. It's a ritual so pervasive and refined that once captured, girls don't bother running away. "There's nowhere to run to." That's why safe spaces are vital. Apne Aap now reaches over 10,000 girls in India's red light districts with legal advice, access to education and mentorships, someone to tell them for the first time in their lives that they don't exist for someone else's pleasure. Pamela Shifman, Director of Initiatives for Women and Girls at the NoVo Foundation, told us the physical location doesn't matter as much as the sense of hope that fills the space, or, "who girls are allowed to be and what they're allowed to feel." Jyothi and Naina dance and laugh and practice karate. It's not just a building that provides refuge from violence; it's a safe space for the whole person. Now 20, Naina has learned to read and write Hindi and is practicing her English. She has dreams for her future now; she wants to be a filmmaker, get married and have children of her own. For the first time, free from the violence and exploitation she grew up with, Naina has a real chance to achieve that dream. Craig and Marc Kielburger co-founded Free the Children. The goal of the organization is to free children from poverty and exploitation through education. © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun [B] source:[/B][url]http://www.{censored}/news/Modern+slave+trade+still+exists+India/5153638/story.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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