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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: 139755" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Opinion</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://co107w.col107.mail.live.com/mail/article.aspx?269948" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #002060"><strong>Time To Lead, Dr Singh </strong></span></span></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: #002060">Despite his noble intentions, Manmohan Singh is singularly failing to either manage the country well or to provide a vision for the nation's future. He may be a nice man but India needs an effective prime minister.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://co107w.col107.mail.live.com/mail/peoplefnl.aspx?pid=4004&author=Harsh+V.+Pant" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002060">Harsh V. Pant</span></a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #002060"><strong><em>“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”</em> </strong></span></p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><em>--</em><em> William Butler Yeats </em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The year began with some very troubled signs about the future trajectory of the present government in Delhi. There is a leadership vacuum at the centre that shows no signs of getting better. Rejecting claims by opposition parties that he had been trying to avoid any questioning over the telecommunications scandal, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had offered to appear before the parliamentary committee investigating the case. During the final day of the plenary session of the Congress, the Prime Minister said that "as proof" of his " bona fides" he would appear before the government committee examining the scandal "if it chooses to ask me to do so."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">A bizarre spectacle is unfolding before the country. A government that has presided over this nation for the last six years now wants the country to believe that they really have nothing to do with the charade that has become of governance. And the nation is now being informed that the UPA will soon start tackling corruption with seriousness. Describing corruption as “a disease spreading throughout our society,” the Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi, went as far as outlining a proposal to fight official graft during the party’s plenary. Not surprisingly, just a year-and-a-half into UPA 2’s five-year term, there is widespread disillusionment with the government. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The corporate sector has lot confidence with a broad dissatisfaction with the Congress. Headed by Singh who still enjoys wide support, this government is seen as one of the most corrupt in recent history. The Prime Minister doesn’t talk to those he is leading. And he is a man who seems no longer in charge of his own government. Sonia Gandhi grandly talks of our shrinking moral universe but she is a leading a team of Congresswallahs who are busy pursuing a cynical brand of politics that stoops to the level of exploiting even those who have lost their lives in protecting their nation. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Congress General Secretary, Digvijay Singh, has had the gall to suggest that Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare had called him a few hours before he was killed on the night of November 26, 2008 to discuss the threat to his life from Hindu extremists linked to the Malegaon bomb blast. In his desire to court the Muslim constituency in North India and to deflect attention from scandals plaguing the party, Singh has taken politics back to the days when in the name of secularism, political parties tended to blatantly exploit religious sensitivities. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">More damagingly, recent revelations from WikiLeaks once again underline how the highest echelons of the Congress Party have little or no understanding of the biggest dangers facing the country. Rahul Gandhi is reported to have informed the American Ambassador that radicalised Hindu groups were more of a threat to India than Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). This is the person who will one day run the country, if he is not already doing so. Has he taken the trouble of even doing some basic reading on LeT? We were being told that he is being tutored for the last few years. It now seems that his tutors were people like Digvijay Singh. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">So on terrorism, we are back to where we were before 26/11. National security issues should transcend politics but the lack of civil dialogue among political parties in India is an abomination. As a result, Indians are stuck between the grave incompetence of the Congress and the cynical political opportunism of the BJP. An issue that should have united political parties across the political spectrum in a common purpose continues to divide them. Even when extremists continue to target the nation’s hinterland, we continue to live in the fantasy-world of our own making, first blaming the outside forces and then training guns at ourselves. It has once again become a Hindu versus Muslim debate: whose terrorists are better, mine or yours? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">At a time when India needs effective institutional capacity to fight the ever-more sophisticated terror networks, Indian police and intelligence services are demoralized to an unprecedented extent. The blatant communalising of the process under which the security forces have been forced to call off searches and interrogations for fear of offending this or that community has led to a situation where the security services have become risk-averse. So long as India’s response to terrorism will be characterised by a shameless appeal along religious lines with political parties trying to consolidate their vote-banks as opposed to coming together to fight the menace, we will continue to be viewed as a soft target by our adversaries and we will continue to fight terrorists in our streets. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Those who seek to challenge the authority of the Indian state feel emboldened to take advantage of the paralysed decision-making in New Delhi. Maladministration, dithering and incompetence has made making India ungovernable with a growing loss of respect for all major state institutions. India is becoming a more corrupt nation over the years with the political establishment, police and lower judiciary playing a large role in this decline. And this corruption is having a corrosive impact on the social fabric of Indian society by undermining the trust of ordinary Indians in their nation’s political system, political institutions and leadership. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">For a party that won a decisive mandate recently, this all pervasive decline is almost difficult to decipher. Economically, the party has not allowed the government to proceed with the second generation of reforms programme. Socially, the stench of corruption is now too odious to bear. All major institutions of governance are now struggling to regain their legitimacy. Politically, the party in power is rapidly losing all the capital it had earned in the 2009 election. There is no coherence in the government with all departments working as if there are no national imperatives, only departmental interests. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">It is time for the Prime Minister to assert his authority. Despite his noble intentions, Manmohan Singh is singularly failing to either manage the country well or to provide a vision for the nation's future. He may be a nice man but India needs an effective prime minister. If he can't step up to face the challenge, may be it is time for him to step down?</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #002060"><HR></span><em><span style="color: #002060"><strong>Dr. Harsh V. Pant teaches at the Department of Defence Studies, King's College London, United Kingdom</strong></span></em></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #002060">source: </span></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?269948" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #002060">http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?269948</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 139755, member: 884"] [B][COLOR=#ff0000]Opinion[/COLOR][/B] [URL="http://co107w.col107.mail.live.com/mail/article.aspx?269948"][SIZE=5][COLOR=#002060][B]Time To Lead, Dr Singh [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=#002060]Despite his noble intentions, Manmohan Singh is singularly failing to either manage the country well or to provide a vision for the nation's future. He may be a nice man but India needs an effective prime minister.[/COLOR][/FONT] [URL="http://co107w.col107.mail.live.com/mail/peoplefnl.aspx?pid=4004&author=Harsh+V.+Pant"][COLOR=#002060]Harsh V. Pant[/COLOR][/URL] [INDENT][LEFT][COLOR=#002060][B][I]“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”[/I] [/B][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/INDENT][COLOR=#002060][I]--[/I][I] William Butler Yeats [/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The year began with some very troubled signs about the future trajectory of the present government in Delhi. There is a leadership vacuum at the centre that shows no signs of getting better. Rejecting claims by opposition parties that he had been trying to avoid any questioning over the telecommunications scandal, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had offered to appear before the parliamentary committee investigating the case. During the final day of the plenary session of the Congress, the Prime Minister said that "as proof" of his " bona fides" he would appear before the government committee examining the scandal "if it chooses to ask me to do so."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]A bizarre spectacle is unfolding before the country. A government that has presided over this nation for the last six years now wants the country to believe that they really have nothing to do with the charade that has become of governance. And the nation is now being informed that the UPA will soon start tackling corruption with seriousness. Describing corruption as “a disease spreading throughout our society,” the Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi, went as far as outlining a proposal to fight official graft during the party’s plenary. Not surprisingly, just a year-and-a-half into UPA 2’s five-year term, there is widespread disillusionment with the government. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The corporate sector has lot confidence with a broad dissatisfaction with the Congress. Headed by Singh who still enjoys wide support, this government is seen as one of the most corrupt in recent history. The Prime Minister doesn’t talk to those he is leading. And he is a man who seems no longer in charge of his own government. Sonia Gandhi grandly talks of our shrinking moral universe but she is a leading a team of Congresswallahs who are busy pursuing a cynical brand of politics that stoops to the level of exploiting even those who have lost their lives in protecting their nation. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Congress General Secretary, Digvijay Singh, has had the gall to suggest that Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare had called him a few hours before he was killed on the night of November 26, 2008 to discuss the threat to his life from Hindu extremists linked to the Malegaon bomb blast. In his desire to court the Muslim constituency in North India and to deflect attention from scandals plaguing the party, Singh has taken politics back to the days when in the name of secularism, political parties tended to blatantly exploit religious sensitivities. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]More damagingly, recent revelations from WikiLeaks once again underline how the highest echelons of the Congress Party have little or no understanding of the biggest dangers facing the country. Rahul Gandhi is reported to have informed the American Ambassador that radicalised Hindu groups were more of a threat to India than Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). This is the person who will one day run the country, if he is not already doing so. Has he taken the trouble of even doing some basic reading on LeT? We were being told that he is being tutored for the last few years. It now seems that his tutors were people like Digvijay Singh. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]So on terrorism, we are back to where we were before 26/11. National security issues should transcend politics but the lack of civil dialogue among political parties in India is an abomination. As a result, Indians are stuck between the grave incompetence of the Congress and the cynical political opportunism of the BJP. An issue that should have united political parties across the political spectrum in a common purpose continues to divide them. Even when extremists continue to target the nation’s hinterland, we continue to live in the fantasy-world of our own making, first blaming the outside forces and then training guns at ourselves. It has once again become a Hindu versus Muslim debate: whose terrorists are better, mine or yours? [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]At a time when India needs effective institutional capacity to fight the ever-more sophisticated terror networks, Indian police and intelligence services are demoralized to an unprecedented extent. The blatant communalising of the process under which the security forces have been forced to call off searches and interrogations for fear of offending this or that community has led to a situation where the security services have become risk-averse. So long as India’s response to terrorism will be characterised by a shameless appeal along religious lines with political parties trying to consolidate their vote-banks as opposed to coming together to fight the menace, we will continue to be viewed as a soft target by our adversaries and we will continue to fight terrorists in our streets. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Those who seek to challenge the authority of the Indian state feel emboldened to take advantage of the paralysed decision-making in New Delhi. Maladministration, dithering and incompetence has made making India ungovernable with a growing loss of respect for all major state institutions. India is becoming a more corrupt nation over the years with the political establishment, police and lower judiciary playing a large role in this decline. And this corruption is having a corrosive impact on the social fabric of Indian society by undermining the trust of ordinary Indians in their nation’s political system, political institutions and leadership. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]For a party that won a decisive mandate recently, this all pervasive decline is almost difficult to decipher. Economically, the party has not allowed the government to proceed with the second generation of reforms programme. Socially, the stench of corruption is now too odious to bear. All major institutions of governance are now struggling to regain their legitimacy. Politically, the party in power is rapidly losing all the capital it had earned in the 2009 election. There is no coherence in the government with all departments working as if there are no national imperatives, only departmental interests. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]It is time for the Prime Minister to assert his authority. Despite his noble intentions, Manmohan Singh is singularly failing to either manage the country well or to provide a vision for the nation's future. He may be a nice man but India needs an effective prime minister. If he can't step up to face the challenge, may be it is time for him to step down?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]<HR>[/COLOR][I][COLOR=#002060][B]Dr. Harsh V. Pant teaches at the Department of Defence Studies, King's College London, United Kingdom[/B][/COLOR][/I] [B][COLOR=#002060]source: [/COLOR][/B] [URL="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?269948"][U][COLOR=#002060]http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?269948[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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