Chiragh Hasan Hasrat

Chiragh Hasan Hasrat (190426 June 1955) was a Pakistani poet and a journalist from the Poonch district of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

In 1920, he joined a school at Simla, Punjab (now in Himachal Pradesh, India) as a Persian teacher where he met Abul Kalam Azad. He was impressed by Azad and soon left the school to meet him again in Calcutta. Hasrat admitted that he had learned a lot from Azad, not only in the field of journalism but about politics and literature.

Nehru Report Hasrat was a supporter of Congress and, in 1928, he supported Nehru Report, writing many columns in favor of it. Since majority of Muslims had rejected this report, backing it caused him to lose popularity among Muslims of India. Hasrat left Calcutta and joined Zafar Ali Khan's newspaper Zamindar in Lahore.

Coming to Lahore In 1929, he came to Lahore to work for the newspaper Zamindar with Zafar Ali Khan as its editor. He wrote for various newspapers in Lahore and then launched his own newspaper Sheeraza in 1936. In 1940, he joined All India Radio, Delhi. Some of his famous books are: Kele Ka Chhilka Mataibaat Harf-o-Hikayat Dou Doctor Murdum-deeda