AMU Alumni Association of Northern California

Sir Syed Day International Mushaira &  AEEF Benefit Dinner in San Francisco Bay Area By Abdus Sattar Ghazali Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association of Northern California ( AMUAA-CA ) celebrated Sir Syed Day 2018 with an International Mushaira. The event was held at the India Community Center in Milpitas, CA on November 10, 2018.   The International Mushaira was presided over by guest poet from Pakistan, Javed Saba. Tashie Zaheer, President of the Urdu Academy of North America, was MC of the Mushaira. Welcoming the guests Tashie Zaheer stressed the importance of poetry in human life. He said that poetry is not simply the sequence of words but a reflection of subtle thoughts. A poet lands us in an unknown world where we are introduced to delicate human feelings and thoughts. To rephrase it, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings according to Aristotle. For William Wordsworth poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the reader o