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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: 183064" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar: Tragic hero or villain?</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Sunday, April, 14 2013 - 21:06</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Our Political Editor</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>CHANDIGARH:</strong> Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar may have been awarded capital punishment that has been upheld by the Supreme Court of India. His mercy plea has been rejected by the President of India. Bhullar may have committed or masterminded a crime that the courts concluded to be the rarest of the rare that deserved no mercy.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Probably he may have been the mastermind as he confessed to his interrogators but retracted in the court. The issue is not whether he has committed the crime for which he has been convicted or not, but the quantum of punishment. There is a widespread opinion that he should not be hanged and his death sentence should be commuted to life. The opinion remains sharply divided between the extremists among those supporting and opposing his death penalty.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Bhullar’s life story is full of tragedy. Born to a middle class family in the southern Malwa of Punjab, he was the product of the worst of times when Punjab was passing through the darkest period in history. His father was a teacher. He completed his engineering from the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana. He was a bright student as securing admission in GNE at that time was no mean achievement.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">After completing his engineering he joined a polytechnic institution as a teacher and since then he came to be known as a professor. During this time he is believed to have come into contact with the extremist groups. The memories of Operation Bluestar and the post Indira Gandhi assassination anti-Sikh riots were quite fresh. Moreover there was a sense of persecution whether real or perceived as well among the young men of his time.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">He was accused of masterminding three bomb blasts; one in Amritsar aimed at Maninderjit Singh Bitta, the another on the life of the then Chandigarh SSP Sumedh Singh Saini, who is now the Director General of Punjab Police, whose contribution to eliminating terrorism in Punjab remains unparalleled and that is the reason he was the target of the bomb attack and the third one outside the Indian Youth Congress aimed at Bitta, who survived while nine persons died in the blast.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In the aftermath of the attack on Chandigarh SSP, his father and maternal uncle were picked up by the police. They never returned home. One of his cousins was allegedly tortured in police custody to the extent that one of his limbs developed septicaemia and it had to be amputated. With father and uncle gone missing, and they are still missing, and a cousin losing his limb, he was personally devastated. The persecution complex obviously got aggravated with personal tragedies which he blamed on the state.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">However, the reference to above mentioned facts is not to justify the crime he has been convicted of and sentenced to death. The acts are highly condemnable and deserve to be condemned and punished according to the law. And he has been duly punished having already spent about two decades in jail and most of these in solitary confinement with death sentence pronounced on him. He is suffering under acute depression and schizophrenia.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Had he been an ordinary criminal the death penalty may not have drawn so much of attention. His offence needs to be viewed in the context of the times he lived in. Punjab has moved ahead and put that dark past behind. People like Bhullar were the product of that dark era. They have suffered themselves as well, for a particular cause they thought was genuine and justified as most of the people at that time believed so. Their acts were in retaliation and vengeance, provoked by the situation and circumstances. That does not mean these should be exonerated. But during the process of reconciliation there is no harm in taking a lenient view. Just commuting a death sentence into life can send the right and positive signals.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">There are other instances where the government of India has actually overlooked and forgiven as heinous crimes as Bhullar has committed. Some of such militants in Kashmir were rehabilitated and they even ended up becoming legislators. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik has himself admitted killing four Indian Air Force officers in the beginning of the Kashmir militancy. If Yasin Malik can be forgiven why cannot Bhullar? There are some other instances as well where the government of India has taken a lenient view which is in no way contrary to any legal provisions but actually is in the long term interest of the nation.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>source: </strong><a href="http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/Devinder-Pal-Bhullar_-Tragic-hero-or-villain_.html" target="_blank">http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/Devinder-Pal-Bhullar_-Tragic-hero-or-villain_.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 183064, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar: Tragic hero or villain?[/SIZE] Sunday, April, 14 2013 - 21:06 Our Political Editor CHANDIGARH:[/B] Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar may have been awarded capital punishment that has been upheld by the Supreme Court of India. His mercy plea has been rejected by the President of India. Bhullar may have committed or masterminded a crime that the courts concluded to be the rarest of the rare that deserved no mercy. Probably he may have been the mastermind as he confessed to his interrogators but retracted in the court. The issue is not whether he has committed the crime for which he has been convicted or not, but the quantum of punishment. There is a widespread opinion that he should not be hanged and his death sentence should be commuted to life. The opinion remains sharply divided between the extremists among those supporting and opposing his death penalty. Bhullar’s life story is full of tragedy. Born to a middle class family in the southern Malwa of Punjab, he was the product of the worst of times when Punjab was passing through the darkest period in history. His father was a teacher. He completed his engineering from the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana. He was a bright student as securing admission in GNE at that time was no mean achievement. After completing his engineering he joined a polytechnic institution as a teacher and since then he came to be known as a professor. During this time he is believed to have come into contact with the extremist groups. The memories of Operation Bluestar and the post Indira Gandhi assassination anti-Sikh riots were quite fresh. Moreover there was a sense of persecution whether real or perceived as well among the young men of his time. He was accused of masterminding three bomb blasts; one in Amritsar aimed at Maninderjit Singh Bitta, the another on the life of the then Chandigarh SSP Sumedh Singh Saini, who is now the Director General of Punjab Police, whose contribution to eliminating terrorism in Punjab remains unparalleled and that is the reason he was the target of the bomb attack and the third one outside the Indian Youth Congress aimed at Bitta, who survived while nine persons died in the blast. In the aftermath of the attack on Chandigarh SSP, his father and maternal uncle were picked up by the police. They never returned home. One of his cousins was allegedly tortured in police custody to the extent that one of his limbs developed septicaemia and it had to be amputated. With father and uncle gone missing, and they are still missing, and a cousin losing his limb, he was personally devastated. The persecution complex obviously got aggravated with personal tragedies which he blamed on the state. However, the reference to above mentioned facts is not to justify the crime he has been convicted of and sentenced to death. The acts are highly condemnable and deserve to be condemned and punished according to the law. And he has been duly punished having already spent about two decades in jail and most of these in solitary confinement with death sentence pronounced on him. He is suffering under acute depression and schizophrenia. Had he been an ordinary criminal the death penalty may not have drawn so much of attention. His offence needs to be viewed in the context of the times he lived in. Punjab has moved ahead and put that dark past behind. People like Bhullar were the product of that dark era. They have suffered themselves as well, for a particular cause they thought was genuine and justified as most of the people at that time believed so. Their acts were in retaliation and vengeance, provoked by the situation and circumstances. That does not mean these should be exonerated. But during the process of reconciliation there is no harm in taking a lenient view. Just commuting a death sentence into life can send the right and positive signals. There are other instances where the government of India has actually overlooked and forgiven as heinous crimes as Bhullar has committed. Some of such militants in Kashmir were rehabilitated and they even ended up becoming legislators. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik has himself admitted killing four Indian Air Force officers in the beginning of the Kashmir militancy. If Yasin Malik can be forgiven why cannot Bhullar? There are some other instances as well where the government of India has taken a lenient view which is in no way contrary to any legal provisions but actually is in the long term interest of the nation. [B]source: [/B][url]http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/Devinder-Pal-Bhullar_-Tragic-hero-or-villain_.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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