Department of South and South-East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley offer training in 14 languages, and undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the histories, religions, cultures and textual traditions of a third of the world’s population. The faculty specializes in all periods from the classical to the modern, in the fields of literature, history, and religious studies, and conducts research in India, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
This faculty invited top ranking Punjabi Artists in the field of Films & Music for a Seminar in the University. Gurinder Chadha a renowned film maker of famous movie ‘Bend It Like Backer’ spoke on films in Holywood and Bollywood. A upcoming and famed recording Artist Shivpreet Singh from EMI gave out the details of commonality between Western and Hindustani music. The seminar was very well attended by enthusiastic listeners.
