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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: 147364" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy">June 5, 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Vast Indian diaspora builds bridges</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">June 05, 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On Jan. 9, 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned home after 22 years in South Africa where he invented non-violent resistance to fight racial discrimination. He would use satyagraha (Truth Force) in India to end British colonial rule in 1947.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Now on Jan. 9 every year, New Delhi hosts 1,500 representatives of the vast Indian diaspora of 25 million from 100 countries. A regional version comes to Toronto Thursday and Friday at the Metro Convention Centre for the 600,000 Indo-Canadians and the four million people of Indian origin in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Wooing the 500 delegates will be Governor General David Johnston and Premier Dalton McGuinty plus a ministerial and business delegation of about 100 from India.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">India received $54 billion last year in remittances and investment from its diaspora. That’s more than the annual trade between India and the U.S. — and 10 times the trade between Canada and India.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Canada wants that trade tripled to $15 billion by 2015. It is negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement. It has already signed a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. To tap into India’s burgeoning $1.2 trillion economy, it wants to sell more commodities, machinery and services. It wants to help Canadian companies bid on hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure projects.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Prime Ministers Stephen Harper and Manmohan Singh designated 2011 as “the Year of India in Canada.” Tomorrow, Jim Flaherty’s budget is expected to include $12 million for a research centre of excellence on India in Canada. Arrayed with him on the front benches will be two Indo-Canadian junior ministers, including the first bearded, turbaned, kirpan-carrying Sikh member of a federal cabinet, Tim Uppal of Edmonton.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On June 25, the International Indian Film Academy is holding its annual awards night in Toronto. All 22,000 seats at the Rogers Centre have been sold out for weeks. A live telecast on Omni, hosted by Lisa Ray, expects an audience of 700 million worldwide.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">India is ever more present on the Canadian landscape. There was the Maharaja exhibit at AGO. World Literacy Canada is getting Toronto students to do a book on Gandhi for release on Oct. 2, his birthday. The 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian Nobel Laureate is being celebrated, mostly by Indo-Canadians. (They are among one million South Asians, who include people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal).</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Indian diaspora is second only the 35 million strong Chinese one. Starting in the 1830s, British colonial rulers sent hundreds of thousands of Indians as indentured laborers to sugar plantations in Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana; the tea, coffee and rubber plantations of Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, Fiji and Mauritius; and to build the railway in East Africa.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">These “coolies of the empire” were followed by those providing spices and services. That’s how Gandhi, the British-trained barrister, ended up in South Africa. </span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">More recent Indian emigrants have mostly been educated and skilled. “They moved voluntarily from one democratic jurisdiction to another,” says Didar Singh, deputy minister of Overseas Indian Affairs. Or they went as expats to the oil-rich Gulf countries.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“The global Indian is diverse — religiously, ethnically, linguistically — and generally hard-working and eminently adaptable,” he tells me over the phone. Nearly all speak English. All have varying degrees of emotional, cultural and culinary links to India. </span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The relationship was not always smooth. In their post-colonial phase of xenophobia, many Indians thought of Non-Resident Indians — NRIs — as Not Really Indian. Many in the diaspora did not want to be associated with the India of starving people and cows, either. V.S. Naipaul, a Trinidadian in the U.K., exemplified the pathology. </span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“There are no thinkers in India” — a “wounded civilization,” home to “a million mutinies.” The great writer was equally vicious about blacks, Muslims and the unwashed. But no sooner had the thriving India emerged than he descended on Delhi and declared fidelity to India’s then ruling racist Hindu revivalist party.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Now the diaspora’s links with India are defined mostly by legal status. The six million in the Gulf, who cannot get citizenship, remain Indian passport holders, forever shuttling. But those who are citizens of Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere have proven beneficial to both their adopted lands and their homeland. They and their children are being courted by both sides to be the bridge to greater mutual economic, cultural and political benefit. </span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><a href="mailto:hsiddiqui@thestar.ca">hsiddiqui@thestar.ca</a></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1002699--siddiqui-vast-indian-diaspora-builds-bridges" target="_blank">http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1002699--siddiqui-vast-indian-diaspora-builds-bridges</a></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 147364, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"]June 5, 2011 [B][SIZE="5"]Vast Indian diaspora builds bridges[/SIZE][/B] June 05, 2011 Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto On Jan. 9, 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned home after 22 years in South Africa where he invented non-violent resistance to fight racial discrimination. He would use satyagraha (Truth Force) in India to end British colonial rule in 1947. Now on Jan. 9 every year, New Delhi hosts 1,500 representatives of the vast Indian diaspora of 25 million from 100 countries. A regional version comes to Toronto Thursday and Friday at the Metro Convention Centre for the 600,000 Indo-Canadians and the four million people of Indian origin in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. Wooing the 500 delegates will be Governor General David Johnston and Premier Dalton McGuinty plus a ministerial and business delegation of about 100 from India. India received $54 billion last year in remittances and investment from its diaspora. That’s more than the annual trade between India and the U.S. — and 10 times the trade between Canada and India. Canada wants that trade tripled to $15 billion by 2015. It is negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement. It has already signed a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. To tap into India’s burgeoning $1.2 trillion economy, it wants to sell more commodities, machinery and services. It wants to help Canadian companies bid on hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure projects. Prime Ministers Stephen Harper and Manmohan Singh designated 2011 as “the Year of India in Canada.” Tomorrow, Jim Flaherty’s budget is expected to include $12 million for a research centre of excellence on India in Canada. Arrayed with him on the front benches will be two Indo-Canadian junior ministers, including the first bearded, turbaned, kirpan-carrying Sikh member of a federal cabinet, Tim Uppal of Edmonton. On June 25, the International Indian Film Academy is holding its annual awards night in Toronto. All 22,000 seats at the Rogers Centre have been sold out for weeks. A live telecast on Omni, hosted by Lisa Ray, expects an audience of 700 million worldwide. India is ever more present on the Canadian landscape. There was the Maharaja exhibit at AGO. World Literacy Canada is getting Toronto students to do a book on Gandhi for release on Oct. 2, his birthday. The 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian Nobel Laureate is being celebrated, mostly by Indo-Canadians. (They are among one million South Asians, who include people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal). The Indian diaspora is second only the 35 million strong Chinese one. Starting in the 1830s, British colonial rulers sent hundreds of thousands of Indians as indentured laborers to sugar plantations in Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana; the tea, coffee and rubber plantations of Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, Fiji and Mauritius; and to build the railway in East Africa. These “coolies of the empire” were followed by those providing spices and services. That’s how Gandhi, the British-trained barrister, ended up in South Africa. More recent Indian emigrants have mostly been educated and skilled. “They moved voluntarily from one democratic jurisdiction to another,” says Didar Singh, deputy minister of Overseas Indian Affairs. Or they went as expats to the oil-rich Gulf countries. “The global Indian is diverse — religiously, ethnically, linguistically — and generally hard-working and eminently adaptable,” he tells me over the phone. Nearly all speak English. All have varying degrees of emotional, cultural and culinary links to India. The relationship was not always smooth. In their post-colonial phase of xenophobia, many Indians thought of Non-Resident Indians — NRIs — as Not Really Indian. Many in the diaspora did not want to be associated with the India of starving people and cows, either. V.S. Naipaul, a Trinidadian in the U.K., exemplified the pathology. “There are no thinkers in India” — a “wounded civilization,” home to “a million mutinies.” The great writer was equally vicious about blacks, Muslims and the unwashed. But no sooner had the thriving India emerged than he descended on Delhi and declared fidelity to India’s then ruling racist Hindu revivalist party. Now the diaspora’s links with India are defined mostly by legal status. The six million in the Gulf, who cannot get citizenship, remain Indian passport holders, forever shuttling. But those who are citizens of Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere have proven beneficial to both their adopted lands and their homeland. They and their children are being courted by both sides to be the bridge to greater mutual economic, cultural and political benefit. [email]hsiddiqui@thestar.ca[/email] [B] source:[/B] [url]http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1002699--siddiqui-vast-indian-diaspora-builds-bridges[/url] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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