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ਜਪੁ | Jup
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
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 150974" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy">Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 32, Dated 13 Aug 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">No Place For Modern Maharajas</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em><strong>Discretionary powers are a source of patronage to the favoured few. Society will benefit by doing away with them</strong></em> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Jayaprakash Narayan Founder-President, Lok Satta Party</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">IT IS generally acknowledged that discretion and arbitrary power breed corruption and unaccountability. That is why all liberal democracies have built institutional mechanisms to ensure equal enforcement of rules for all. Power is a sacred trust, not a private privilege.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Sadly, our elected leaders have always acted like modern-day maharajas. The natural propensity of our society to prostrate before power has been compounded by the ill-considered licence-permit-quota-raj built in the quest for the ‘socialistic pattern of society’. Even as economic freedom has increased, the bad habits of the licence raj have stayed with us.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Petrol pumps, gas and telephone connections, fair-price shop dealerships, house allotments, nomination to temple committees or market committees have all become means of exercising discretionary power and extending out-of-turn patronage. Public sector in India had very little to do with people; it was the private sector of those in public office! Even a darshan of lord Venkateswara in Tirumala is subject to discretionary quota!</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In recent years, MPLADS and MLALADS have become sources of discretion and patronage. Transfer and postings of officials have been informally controlled by the elected politician. The bureaucrat-politician nexus ensures that only the favoured few get all government goodies; rule of law be damned! And then we have discretion and arbitrariness in allocation of natural resources. Land, sand, and mines have become the new expressions of power. Prime urban land or coastal zones are allotted exclusively to favoured cronies, often for a consideration. Mining leases, in the name of first-come-firstserve policy, are awarded for a consideration. The allocation of 2G spectrum without competition or transparency is simply the latest, most egregious instance of such discretion and patronage.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">What can be done to end these corrupt, distorted, non-transparent, non-competitive processes? First, all discretionary quotas and MP and MLALADS should be disbanded. Second, for all awarding of natural resources, mandatory competitive bidding in a transparent manner should be institutionalised. Third, sectors that are amenable to competition, or those that do not form part of the government’s responsibilities should be taken out of government control.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Suitable mechanisms should be evolved to democratically manage temples, market committees and cooperatives. Finally, citizens must be made aware of the limits to state power, and abuse of power and obstruction of justice must be made punishable offences.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">A democracy cannot allow exercise of public functions as in a private estate. Competitive elections, peaceful transfer of power, political freedoms were all new to us when we first got taste of them. Once privileges and discretionary quotas are abolished, we will soon get used to a new culture. Corruption is not merely receiving a bribe for a favour. Arbitrary exercise of power, mala fide discretion, cronyism, nepotism and favouritism are no less dangerous to competition, society’s morale and public interest.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">We can end these feudal practices only when we assert collectively and consistently that we refuse to be silent bystanders to those in office on our behalf abusing power for private gain at public cost. We also need to recognise the centrality of politics in our lives.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The best and the brightest who have shunned politics like the plague in the past must now recognise that true politics is a noble endeavour, and public office is a sacred trust. Such citizens who forsake personal gain to promote public good should accept politics and public office as a calling, not a profitable business. Only then can charlatans and power brokers that inhabit the corridors of power be held accountable, or replaced by a new crop of leaders who put the nation above self, and serve with humility, dignity and foresight.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Jayaprakash Narayan is Founder-President, Lok Satta Party.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><a href="mailto:jp@loksattaparty.com">jp@loksattaparty.com</a> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Op130811PROSCONS.asp" target="_blank">http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Op130811PROSCONS.asp</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 150974, member: 884"] [COLOR=Navy]Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 32, Dated 13 Aug 2011 [B][SIZE=5]No Place For Modern Maharajas[/SIZE][/B] [I][B]Discretionary powers are a source of patronage to the favoured few. Society will benefit by doing away with them[/B][/I] Jayaprakash Narayan Founder-President, Lok Satta Party IT IS generally acknowledged that discretion and arbitrary power breed corruption and unaccountability. That is why all liberal democracies have built institutional mechanisms to ensure equal enforcement of rules for all. Power is a sacred trust, not a private privilege. Sadly, our elected leaders have always acted like modern-day maharajas. The natural propensity of our society to prostrate before power has been compounded by the ill-considered licence-permit-quota-raj built in the quest for the ‘socialistic pattern of society’. Even as economic freedom has increased, the bad habits of the licence raj have stayed with us. Petrol pumps, gas and telephone connections, fair-price shop dealerships, house allotments, nomination to temple committees or market committees have all become means of exercising discretionary power and extending out-of-turn patronage. Public sector in India had very little to do with people; it was the private sector of those in public office! Even a darshan of lord Venkateswara in Tirumala is subject to discretionary quota! In recent years, MPLADS and MLALADS have become sources of discretion and patronage. Transfer and postings of officials have been informally controlled by the elected politician. The bureaucrat-politician nexus ensures that only the favoured few get all government goodies; rule of law be damned! And then we have discretion and arbitrariness in allocation of natural resources. Land, sand, and mines have become the new expressions of power. Prime urban land or coastal zones are allotted exclusively to favoured cronies, often for a consideration. Mining leases, in the name of first-come-firstserve policy, are awarded for a consideration. The allocation of 2G spectrum without competition or transparency is simply the latest, most egregious instance of such discretion and patronage. What can be done to end these corrupt, distorted, non-transparent, non-competitive processes? First, all discretionary quotas and MP and MLALADS should be disbanded. Second, for all awarding of natural resources, mandatory competitive bidding in a transparent manner should be institutionalised. Third, sectors that are amenable to competition, or those that do not form part of the government’s responsibilities should be taken out of government control. Suitable mechanisms should be evolved to democratically manage temples, market committees and cooperatives. Finally, citizens must be made aware of the limits to state power, and abuse of power and obstruction of justice must be made punishable offences. A democracy cannot allow exercise of public functions as in a private estate. Competitive elections, peaceful transfer of power, political freedoms were all new to us when we first got taste of them. Once privileges and discretionary quotas are abolished, we will soon get used to a new culture. Corruption is not merely receiving a bribe for a favour. Arbitrary exercise of power, mala fide discretion, cronyism, nepotism and favouritism are no less dangerous to competition, society’s morale and public interest. We can end these feudal practices only when we assert collectively and consistently that we refuse to be silent bystanders to those in office on our behalf abusing power for private gain at public cost. We also need to recognise the centrality of politics in our lives. The best and the brightest who have shunned politics like the plague in the past must now recognise that true politics is a noble endeavour, and public office is a sacred trust. Such citizens who forsake personal gain to promote public good should accept politics and public office as a calling, not a profitable business. Only then can charlatans and power brokers that inhabit the corridors of power be held accountable, or replaced by a new crop of leaders who put the nation above self, and serve with humility, dignity and foresight. Jayaprakash Narayan is Founder-President, Lok Satta Party. [EMAIL="jp@loksattaparty.com"]jp@loksattaparty.com[/EMAIL] [B]source:[/B] [URL]http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Op130811PROSCONS.asp[/URL][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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