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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: 170306" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Sikh…and ye shall find: Courting minorities amid xenophobia</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN | Aug 31, 2012, 01.11AM IST</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-16023482%2cwidth-300%2cresizemode-4/Ishwar-Singh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><span style="color: Red">Ishwar Singh delivers an invocation at the Tampa Bay </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><span style="color: Red">Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 29, 2012</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><span style="color: Red">during the Republican National Convention (RNC).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>TAMPA (FLORIDA):</strong> Nearly a month after a gunman went on a bloody rampage at a Wisconsin gurdwara, a bearded, turbaned Sikh offered an invocation at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night as part of the Grand Old Party's outreach towards minorities and outliers, generally seen as Democratic Party supporters.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">That effort was undercut in some measure by a couple of distasteful incidents at the convention, demonstrating that every party gets the poopers it ill-deserves, and that Republicans have more than a fair share of delinquents.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Two offenders were turfed out of the RNC on Wednesday after they harassed an African-American camerawoman from CNN, allegedly throwing peanut shells at her and taunting, "This is how we feed animals."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In a separate incident, a group of young, hot-blooded Republicans began chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A," when a Hispanic party functionary began speaking in accented English. Party stalwarts quickly brought the situation under control by asking for order and respect for the speaker, but the unscripted moment couldn't hide what one commentator described as "an ugly outburst of nativism" in a party lately accused of stirring up xenophobia.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Beyond these aberrations, the GOP wheeled out a succession of outliers, including Log Cabin (gay and lesbian) Republicans and pro-choice women members to demonstrate its effort at being a big tent party. But the most striking illustration of such outreach came when Ishwar Singh, head priest of the Sikh Society of Central Florida, stepped up to the podium on Wednesday in a snow-white turban to deliver a halting invocation that was greeted with mild applause.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"The tenets of Sikhism - humility, equality, and justice - lie at the heart of the American ethic," Singh said later. "I hope that my presence on the national stage will play a small part in helping Sikhs - and people of all races, faiths and orientations - be seen as part of the great American family."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Some activists were skeptical, suggesting that the GOP gesture was duplicitous. "If Mitt Romney and Republican leaders want the historic Sikh invocation to be more than tokenism -- and are serious about preventing another Oak Creek -- they cannot continue to let hateful speech within their own party go unchecked," Valerie Kaur, founding director of Groundswell, a social activist group, wrote in a CNN opinion piece, pointing to instances when the party leadership had flirted with xenophobia.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Romney himself has been under scrutiny on this matter after he made statements that Kaur said "implied that President Barack Obama's skin color renders him foreign or suspect." At a campaign stop last week, Romney boasted in an off-the-cuff moment that "No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate," a snarky reference to questions (mostly from Republican wingnuts) about Obama's birthplace. Another time, he was quoted as saying Obama was trying to "change the nature of America" and that "his course is extraordinarily foreign."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On the flip side though, Republicans managed to prominently project Sikhs from their platform even though Democrats have long appeared to have monopolized their political loyalty. In Tampa, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Sikhni who converted to Christianity, and Ricky Gill, a young (only 25) clean-cut Sikh Congressional candidate from California, had their two-minutes of speechmaking under the spotlight.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The first Sikh (and indeed the first Indian) to be elected to the House of Representatives, Dalip Singh Saund, was a Democrat, while Kaur, on the other hand, said her Sikh American father was a Republican.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Indeed, both parties have made strenuous efforts to court the Sikh community despite their modest numbers, an effort spurred in part by India currently having a Sikh Prime Minister. President Bush was demonstrably deferential and affectionate towards Dr Manmohan Singh, who returned the sentiment by once telling him that the "people of India love you, Mr President."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">President Obama has been similarly reverential towards the elderly Prime Minister, hosting him for a state dinner at the White House, and often seeking his counsel. In fact, after a brief flub during the 2008 election season when the Obama campaign tried to embarrass Hillary Clinton for her close association with Sikhs (She was described as a Democrat from Punjab, needling aside for which Obama apologized), the President has gone to great lengths to show his respect for the Sikh faith. The Obama White House hosted an event on the occasion of Guru Nanak's 540th birthday, and Sikh activists have unprecedented access to the White House in their efforts to raise the community profile and avoid intrusive security scrutiny.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama personally visited families of the victims of the Wisconsin gurdwara shooting after Obama himself spoke to some of them on telephone. Republicans haven't lagged in that either with vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan and Wisconsin governor Paul Ryan extending their support.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">All in all, it's an extraordinary all-round show of support for a community that is less than half a million in the United States, while Muslims, who are more than ten times the number, must be wondering what they have to do to attract similar attention and courting.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source: </strong><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Sikhand-ye-shall-find-Courting-minorities-amid-xenophobia/articleshow/16023195.cms" target="_blank">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Sikhand-ye-shall-find-Courting-minorities-amid-xenophobia/articleshow/16023195.cms</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 170306, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]Sikh…and ye shall find: Courting minorities amid xenophobia[/SIZE][/B] Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN | Aug 31, 2012, 01.11AM IST [IMG]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-16023482%2cwidth-300%2cresizemode-4/Ishwar-Singh.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR="Red"]Ishwar Singh delivers an invocation at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 29, 2012 during the Republican National Convention (RNC).[/COLOR] [B]TAMPA (FLORIDA):[/B] Nearly a month after a gunman went on a bloody rampage at a Wisconsin gurdwara, a bearded, turbaned Sikh offered an invocation at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night as part of the Grand Old Party's outreach towards minorities and outliers, generally seen as Democratic Party supporters. That effort was undercut in some measure by a couple of distasteful incidents at the convention, demonstrating that every party gets the poopers it ill-deserves, and that Republicans have more than a fair share of delinquents. Two offenders were turfed out of the RNC on Wednesday after they harassed an African-American camerawoman from CNN, allegedly throwing peanut shells at her and taunting, "This is how we feed animals." In a separate incident, a group of young, hot-blooded Republicans began chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A," when a Hispanic party functionary began speaking in accented English. Party stalwarts quickly brought the situation under control by asking for order and respect for the speaker, but the unscripted moment couldn't hide what one commentator described as "an ugly outburst of nativism" in a party lately accused of stirring up xenophobia. Beyond these aberrations, the GOP wheeled out a succession of outliers, including Log Cabin (gay and lesbian) Republicans and pro-choice women members to demonstrate its effort at being a big tent party. But the most striking illustration of such outreach came when Ishwar Singh, head priest of the Sikh Society of Central Florida, stepped up to the podium on Wednesday in a snow-white turban to deliver a halting invocation that was greeted with mild applause. "The tenets of Sikhism - humility, equality, and justice - lie at the heart of the American ethic," Singh said later. "I hope that my presence on the national stage will play a small part in helping Sikhs - and people of all races, faiths and orientations - be seen as part of the great American family." Some activists were skeptical, suggesting that the GOP gesture was duplicitous. "If Mitt Romney and Republican leaders want the historic Sikh invocation to be more than tokenism -- and are serious about preventing another Oak Creek -- they cannot continue to let hateful speech within their own party go unchecked," Valerie Kaur, founding director of Groundswell, a social activist group, wrote in a CNN opinion piece, pointing to instances when the party leadership had flirted with xenophobia. Romney himself has been under scrutiny on this matter after he made statements that Kaur said "implied that President Barack Obama's skin color renders him foreign or suspect." At a campaign stop last week, Romney boasted in an off-the-cuff moment that "No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate," a snarky reference to questions (mostly from Republican wingnuts) about Obama's birthplace. Another time, he was quoted as saying Obama was trying to "change the nature of America" and that "his course is extraordinarily foreign." On the flip side though, Republicans managed to prominently project Sikhs from their platform even though Democrats have long appeared to have monopolized their political loyalty. In Tampa, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Sikhni who converted to Christianity, and Ricky Gill, a young (only 25) clean-cut Sikh Congressional candidate from California, had their two-minutes of speechmaking under the spotlight. The first Sikh (and indeed the first Indian) to be elected to the House of Representatives, Dalip Singh Saund, was a Democrat, while Kaur, on the other hand, said her Sikh American father was a Republican. Indeed, both parties have made strenuous efforts to court the Sikh community despite their modest numbers, an effort spurred in part by India currently having a Sikh Prime Minister. President Bush was demonstrably deferential and affectionate towards Dr Manmohan Singh, who returned the sentiment by once telling him that the "people of India love you, Mr President." President Obama has been similarly reverential towards the elderly Prime Minister, hosting him for a state dinner at the White House, and often seeking his counsel. In fact, after a brief flub during the 2008 election season when the Obama campaign tried to embarrass Hillary Clinton for her close association with Sikhs (She was described as a Democrat from Punjab, needling aside for which Obama apologized), the President has gone to great lengths to show his respect for the Sikh faith. The Obama White House hosted an event on the occasion of Guru Nanak's 540th birthday, and Sikh activists have unprecedented access to the White House in their efforts to raise the community profile and avoid intrusive security scrutiny. Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama personally visited families of the victims of the Wisconsin gurdwara shooting after Obama himself spoke to some of them on telephone. Republicans haven't lagged in that either with vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan and Wisconsin governor Paul Ryan extending their support. All in all, it's an extraordinary all-round show of support for a community that is less than half a million in the United States, while Muslims, who are more than ten times the number, must be wondering what they have to do to attract similar attention and courting. [B]source: [/B][url]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Sikhand-ye-shall-find-Courting-minorities-amid-xenophobia/articleshow/16023195.cms[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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