Media Culture Lab: A Play With Grandpa's Degrees?

 Just a few documents can reveal so much?

Even when that person is nomore in this world?

What kind of interest people could have in his documents, letters or diaries?

Matric 1940 (10th?)

The University of Punjab

D.B. High School, Meham

DOB (1 - 9 - 1922)

1st September, 1922

Second Division

Also passed in one additional subject

Senate Hall, Lahore (1st August, 1940)

Controller of Examination 

University of Punjab

S.P. Singh

Intermediate, 1943 (12th?)

The University of Punjab

Faculty of Arts

Second Division

Also passed in one additional subject Urdu

Senate Hall, Lahore (1st November, 1943)

Controller of Examination 

University of Punjab

S.P. Singh

Batchelor of Arts (BA?)

East Panjab University

Faculty of Arts, 1947

Solan, Shimla 

Solan, Shimla Hills

March 5, 1949

Chancellor Trivedi

Registrar ?

Batchelor of Teaching (BT)

Panjab University

Faculty of Education

Optional subject passed Nil

Qualified in the simple language test, Hindi and Panjabi

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Solan, Shimla Hills

August 7, 1953

Countersigned Chancellor ?

Registrar?

MA?

Degree gul

But who did that, when and why?

MT?

Degree Gul?

But who did that, when and why?

There are so many more details here or there. Some elections somewhere and some letters resurfaced or gul drama started again. Resurfaced from Bhiwani and some special name surprised a bit. And I was like, what's happening? And why?

And somewhere? 

"भाई रोई नै मेरी रसोई मैं भिवानी स्टैंड धर दिया" 

And I was like, what the hell is this Bhiwani stand now? 

और जैसे ही भाभी की मौत हुई, भिवानी स्टैंड का अवतार घर दाख़िल जैसे?

थोड़ा बहुत भिवानी स्टैंड रसोई से हटाया, जो कुछ मुझे समझ आया और भिवानी स्टैंड गुल? है ना अजीबोग़रीब साँग?   

Then noticed something, somewhere on some foreign university websites. And I was like, what kind of world are we living? Impacted by some words, some dates, some places, some degrees, some documents, some letters, some land records etc. so much? Like, father's letters. Then dramas on uncle name. Half empty khandhar, uncle job's two black boxes, names and numbers on them, aunty's sandooks or grandpa's home windows, or wood material like kadi etc. And half empty khandhar dramas, here or there repairs, donkies sand show etc.

And right now, a ghanti wali brown cow is going from this side to that side. I have noticed such parades about so many other animals or birds also. like bulls (khagads), dogs, cats, buffaloes, horses, different types of sparrows, sunbirds, peacocks, bats, rats, wasps, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, eagles to name a few living organisms, as list is long.