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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="spnadmin" data-source="post: 176598" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>There was a related link to the original post describing how the debate about honor killing is playing out in India. This is from the blog India Ink.</p><p></p><p><strong>Debating the Death Sentence for ‘Honor’ Killings</strong></p><p>By NIHARIKA MANDHANA</p><p></p><p><a href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/debating-the-death-sentence-for-honor-killings/?ref=asia" target="_blank">http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/debating-the-death-sentence-for-honor-killings/?ref=asia</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Five people from Delhi were sentenced to death on Friday for the “honor killing” of a couple, the latest in a series of death penalty judgments in India for the murder of young people who wish to marry outside their caste or religious group.</p><p></p><p>The victims, who belonged to different castes and hoped to get married, were reportedly tied with ropes and beaten with sticks and pipes before being electrocuted to death in 2010.</p><p></p><p>“Such cruel and barbaric acts cannot be allowed to take place in developed metropolitan cities,” the sessions judge, Ramesh Kumar Singhal, said while sentencing.</p><p></p><p>So-called honor killings take place in many parts of India, particularly in the northern states of Haryana, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, where caste continues to be a decisive factor in marriage. Young men and women who violate the traditional rules that prohibit marriage outside their own castes and religious communities are regularly ostracized, tortured and sometimes even murdered by members of their family, village or community. On some occasions, self-appointed caste councils, called khap panchayats, pass diktats ordering such attacks, claiming they hope to protect the honor of their communities.</p><p></p><p><strong>In recent years, India’s highest court has taken a strong position against this practice. “There is nothing honorable in such killings,” the Supreme Court said in 2006, “and in fact they are nothing but barbaric and shameful acts of murder committed by brutal, feudal minded persons who deserve harsh punishment.”</strong></p><p></p><p>Last year, the court went one step further and prescribed the death sentence to punish those guilty of honor killings, saying it was time to “stamp out these barbaric, feudal practices which are a slur on our nation.”</p><p></p><p>“All persons who are planning to perpetrate honor killings should know that the gallows await them,” the court said.</p><p></p><p>But not all institutions in India agree with the court’s stance. In a report released in August this year, India’s Law Commission, an advisory body of legal experts, criticized the court’s directive, saying that the death sentence in India is to be used “only in very exceptional and rare cases,” when “aggravating and mitigating circumstances” are found.</p><p></p><p>The commission found that since the decision was given, the lower courts of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi had sentenced almost all accused in cases of honor killings to death. Disapproving of this trend, the commission said that each case needed to be judged on its own facts and circumstances and criticized what it called the Supreme Court’s “blanket direction” to give the death penalty in all instances of honor killings.</p><p></p><p>“No hard and fast rule can be laid down,” the report said, in sharp contrast to the court’s decision prescribing the death penalty for honor killings committed “for whatever reason.”</p><p></p><p>In the 2011 case decided by the Supreme Court, a man strangled his daughter to death for having a relationship against his will. The court said that if a person is unhappy with the behavior of a relative or a member of his caste, “the maximum he can do is to cut off social relations,” but he “cannot take the law into his own hands by committing violence or giving threats of violence.”</p><p></p><p>India has retained the death penalty, but since the 1980s this extreme form of punishment has been used only in the “rarest of rare” cases. Statistics show that even where the death penalty is given, execution is uncommon. According to Amnesty International’s recent data, 435 people were sentenced to death in India between 2007 and 2011, but none have been hanged.</p><p></p><p>Honor killings, which have been under intense media scrutiny, now fall within the “rarest of rare” category. In a bid to combat the practice more effectively, the government began considering various legal proposals in 2009, including an amendment to the country’s penal code to explicitly mention honor killings. The Law Commission, tasked with evaluating this proposal, advised against it, saying the amendment would cause “interpretational difficulties.”</p><p></p><p>Instead, the Law Commission proposed a law to ban the now infamous “khap panchayats,” which are different from the country’s gram panchayats, or local self-governments. The bodies of community elders have been called “undemocratic” by the government, and the report labels them a “pernicious practice.” “Often young couples who fall in love have to seek shelter in the police lines or protection homes to avoid the wrath of kangaroo courts,” the report said.</p><p></p><p>The proposed law seeks to prohibit any group from gathering “to deliberate on, or condemn” any legal marriage, “on the basis that the marriage has dishonored the caste or community tradition or brought disrepute to the family, village or locality.”</p><p></p><p>The intention of the law, the report said, is to “curb the social evil of caste councils or panchayats” that endanger the “life and liberty of young persons.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 176598, member: 35"] There was a related link to the original post describing how the debate about honor killing is playing out in India. This is from the blog India Ink. [B]Debating the Death Sentence for ‘Honor’ Killings[/B] By NIHARIKA MANDHANA [url]http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/debating-the-death-sentence-for-honor-killings/?ref=asia[/url] Five people from Delhi were sentenced to death on Friday for the “honor killing” of a couple, the latest in a series of death penalty judgments in India for the murder of young people who wish to marry outside their caste or religious group. The victims, who belonged to different castes and hoped to get married, were reportedly tied with ropes and beaten with sticks and pipes before being electrocuted to death in 2010. “Such cruel and barbaric acts cannot be allowed to take place in developed metropolitan cities,” the sessions judge, Ramesh Kumar Singhal, said while sentencing. So-called honor killings take place in many parts of India, particularly in the northern states of Haryana, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, where caste continues to be a decisive factor in marriage. Young men and women who violate the traditional rules that prohibit marriage outside their own castes and religious communities are regularly ostracized, tortured and sometimes even murdered by members of their family, village or community. On some occasions, self-appointed caste councils, called khap panchayats, pass diktats ordering such attacks, claiming they hope to protect the honor of their communities. [B]In recent years, India’s highest court has taken a strong position against this practice. “There is nothing honorable in such killings,” the Supreme Court said in 2006, “and in fact they are nothing but barbaric and shameful acts of murder committed by brutal, feudal minded persons who deserve harsh punishment.”[/B] Last year, the court went one step further and prescribed the death sentence to punish those guilty of honor killings, saying it was time to “stamp out these barbaric, feudal practices which are a slur on our nation.” “All persons who are planning to perpetrate honor killings should know that the gallows await them,” the court said. But not all institutions in India agree with the court’s stance. In a report released in August this year, India’s Law Commission, an advisory body of legal experts, criticized the court’s directive, saying that the death sentence in India is to be used “only in very exceptional and rare cases,” when “aggravating and mitigating circumstances” are found. The commission found that since the decision was given, the lower courts of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi had sentenced almost all accused in cases of honor killings to death. Disapproving of this trend, the commission said that each case needed to be judged on its own facts and circumstances and criticized what it called the Supreme Court’s “blanket direction” to give the death penalty in all instances of honor killings. “No hard and fast rule can be laid down,” the report said, in sharp contrast to the court’s decision prescribing the death penalty for honor killings committed “for whatever reason.” In the 2011 case decided by the Supreme Court, a man strangled his daughter to death for having a relationship against his will. The court said that if a person is unhappy with the behavior of a relative or a member of his caste, “the maximum he can do is to cut off social relations,” but he “cannot take the law into his own hands by committing violence or giving threats of violence.” India has retained the death penalty, but since the 1980s this extreme form of punishment has been used only in the “rarest of rare” cases. Statistics show that even where the death penalty is given, execution is uncommon. According to Amnesty International’s recent data, 435 people were sentenced to death in India between 2007 and 2011, but none have been hanged. Honor killings, which have been under intense media scrutiny, now fall within the “rarest of rare” category. In a bid to combat the practice more effectively, the government began considering various legal proposals in 2009, including an amendment to the country’s penal code to explicitly mention honor killings. The Law Commission, tasked with evaluating this proposal, advised against it, saying the amendment would cause “interpretational difficulties.” Instead, the Law Commission proposed a law to ban the now infamous “khap panchayats,” which are different from the country’s gram panchayats, or local self-governments. The bodies of community elders have been called “undemocratic” by the government, and the report labels them a “pernicious practice.” “Often young couples who fall in love have to seek shelter in the police lines or protection homes to avoid the wrath of kangaroo courts,” the report said. The proposed law seeks to prohibit any group from gathering “to deliberate on, or condemn” any legal marriage, “on the basis that the marriage has dishonored the caste or community tradition or brought disrepute to the family, village or locality.” The intention of the law, the report said, is to “curb the social evil of caste councils or panchayats” that endanger the “life and liberty of young persons.” [/QUOTE]
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