San Francisco Bay Area Community Leader Hasan Jahangir Hamdani remembered

 

 

 

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

 

                                                Attorney Javed Ellahie

                                                    Professor Abdul Jabbar

 

Journalist Abdus Sattar Ghazali

 

 

Urdu Poet and Community Leader, Tashie Zaheer

                                                Dr. Anshuman Chandra