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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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 163866" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">the next president</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">The Giani’s Riot Act</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em><strong>Zail Singh would have gladly been Indira’s ‘sweeper’. The rules changed for Rajiv.</strong></em></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Uttam Sengupta - Outlookindia Magazine - April 30, 2012</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://photo.outlookindia.com/images/gallery/20120419/rajiv_zail_singh_20120430.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><span style="color: Red">Zail Singh with Rajiv and R. Venkataraman</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">President Giani Zail Singh was in Yemen when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her security guards in October 1984. On the aircraft back, Zail Singh told accompanying newsmen that he would “appoint” Rajiv Gandhi as the next prime minister. The ruling party had the right to elect a leader but he, as president, had the authority to appoint the PM, he declared.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Giani, who had no formal secular education, would later say, with evident satisfaction, that he had repaid a debt. Loyal to the Gandhi family, he had at one point caused a furore by asserting that he’d have even accepted the post of a sweeper from Indira.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The two, however, fell out soon enough, the anti-Sikh riots and the president’s inability to do anything to stop the rioting, turning the relationship cold. “The president could not get through to the home minister. The Delhi L-G told him that everyone was busy preparing for the funeral and though the president is the supreme commander of the armed forces, Gianiji could not call the army out to quell the rioting,” recalls Tarlochan Singh, his media advisor between 1982-87.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Rumours that the president had deliberately administered the oath of office to Rajiv even before a Congress parliamentary party meeting could be held (purportedly so that he himself could run the show) sowed the seeds for more discord. The government’s decision to withdraw Zail Singh’s favourite bureaucrat I.S. Bindra (on deputation to the Rashtrapati Bhavan) without consulting him widened the gulf.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Rajiv then dissolved the Lok Sabha without consulting the president and even did away with niceties like calling on him before going abroad or briefing him on return. Zail Singh was also denied a role in his home state, Punjab, and the Rajiv-Longowal Accord was scripted without any reference to him.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The president, though, put his foot down when the government wanted him to praise, in his address to Parliament, the new Punjab CM, S.S. Barnala. Rashtrapati Bhavan returned the draft but it was sent back to him again. Finally, a few weeks after the laudatory references were made, Barnala was unceremoniously eased out.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Another incident that queered the pitch was then MoS for external affairs K.K. Tewary’s allegation in Parliament that the president had harboured terrorists at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Although Rajiv defended the president in Parliament, it didn’t go down well with Gianiji who wrote a damning letter to the PM which also appeared in a newspaper the very next day. This, coupled with the president’s refusal to sign the Postal Bill, authorising the police to intercept and open mails, opened a can of worms. Congress dissidents flocked to the Rashtrapati Bhavan while the home ministry put the presidential residence under surveillance. So much so that Zail Singh would escort visitors to the lawn outside to chat, convinced the rooms in Rashtrapati Bhavan were bugged.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In a sweet twist to the tale, though, Zail Singh and Rajiv later made up. Gianiji, who had no house outside his village, was allotted a house in Delhi by the government after he left office, the first president to enjoy the privilege. “If only the two had worked together,” laments Tarlochan. Zail Singh had profound knowledge of the scriptures and invariably impressed the heads of state he interacted with, recalls his media advisor.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Indira Gandhi, claims Tarlochan, consulted the Congress parliamentary board and the CMs over their choice for president in 1982. “An overwhelming majority, and surprisingly, the CMs from southern states, favoured Gianiji,” prompting Indira to ask in jest whether Zail Singh was busy marshalling votes in the home ministry.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280622" target="_blank">http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280622</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 163866, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] the next president [B][SIZE="4"]The Giani’s Riot Act[/SIZE][/B] [I][B]Zail Singh would have gladly been Indira’s ‘sweeper’. The rules changed for Rajiv.[/B][/I] Uttam Sengupta - Outlookindia Magazine - April 30, 2012 [IMG]http://photo.outlookindia.com/images/gallery/20120419/rajiv_zail_singh_20120430.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR="Red"]Zail Singh with Rajiv and R. Venkataraman[/COLOR] President Giani Zail Singh was in Yemen when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her security guards in October 1984. On the aircraft back, Zail Singh told accompanying newsmen that he would “appoint” Rajiv Gandhi as the next prime minister. The ruling party had the right to elect a leader but he, as president, had the authority to appoint the PM, he declared. The Giani, who had no formal secular education, would later say, with evident satisfaction, that he had repaid a debt. Loyal to the Gandhi family, he had at one point caused a furore by asserting that he’d have even accepted the post of a sweeper from Indira. The two, however, fell out soon enough, the anti-Sikh riots and the president’s inability to do anything to stop the rioting, turning the relationship cold. “The president could not get through to the home minister. The Delhi L-G told him that everyone was busy preparing for the funeral and though the president is the supreme commander of the armed forces, Gianiji could not call the army out to quell the rioting,” recalls Tarlochan Singh, his media advisor between 1982-87. Rumours that the president had deliberately administered the oath of office to Rajiv even before a Congress parliamentary party meeting could be held (purportedly so that he himself could run the show) sowed the seeds for more discord. The government’s decision to withdraw Zail Singh’s favourite bureaucrat I.S. Bindra (on deputation to the Rashtrapati Bhavan) without consulting him widened the gulf. Rajiv then dissolved the Lok Sabha without consulting the president and even did away with niceties like calling on him before going abroad or briefing him on return. Zail Singh was also denied a role in his home state, Punjab, and the Rajiv-Longowal Accord was scripted without any reference to him. The president, though, put his foot down when the government wanted him to praise, in his address to Parliament, the new Punjab CM, S.S. Barnala. Rashtrapati Bhavan returned the draft but it was sent back to him again. Finally, a few weeks after the laudatory references were made, Barnala was unceremoniously eased out. Another incident that queered the pitch was then MoS for external affairs K.K. Tewary’s allegation in Parliament that the president had harboured terrorists at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Although Rajiv defended the president in Parliament, it didn’t go down well with Gianiji who wrote a damning letter to the PM which also appeared in a newspaper the very next day. This, coupled with the president’s refusal to sign the Postal Bill, authorising the police to intercept and open mails, opened a can of worms. Congress dissidents flocked to the Rashtrapati Bhavan while the home ministry put the presidential residence under surveillance. So much so that Zail Singh would escort visitors to the lawn outside to chat, convinced the rooms in Rashtrapati Bhavan were bugged. In a sweet twist to the tale, though, Zail Singh and Rajiv later made up. Gianiji, who had no house outside his village, was allotted a house in Delhi by the government after he left office, the first president to enjoy the privilege. “If only the two had worked together,” laments Tarlochan. Zail Singh had profound knowledge of the scriptures and invariably impressed the heads of state he interacted with, recalls his media advisor. Indira Gandhi, claims Tarlochan, consulted the Congress parliamentary board and the CMs over their choice for president in 1982. “An overwhelming majority, and surprisingly, the CMs from southern states, favoured Gianiji,” prompting Indira to ask in jest whether Zail Singh was busy marshalling votes in the home ministry. [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280622[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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