In a book introduction program held on January 21, 2024 at the Chandni Restaurant in Newark, California, San Francisco Bay Area South Asian community leader Syed Hasan Jahangir Hamdani was remembered and eulogized. The promoted book was Hamdani’s ‘Dasht e Junoon’, a posthumous collection of his mainly Urdu and some Persian poetry. Hamdani’s family members as well as Bay Area connoisseurs of literature including Tashie Zaheer, Professor Abdul Jabbar, and Javed Ellahie spoke at the event.
Emcee, Ahsan Jahangir Hamdani
Poetess Mehnaz Naqvi
Mrs. Sahab Hamdani
Singer Almas Shabvani
Journalist Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Urdu Poet and Community Leader, Tashie Zaheer
Dr. Anshuman Chandra