Dushyant Kumar Tyagi (1 September 1931 – 30 December 1975) was an Indian poet of modern

Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

literature. He is famous for writing

Ghazals The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a p ...

, and is generally recognised as one of the foremost

poets of the 20th century.

Personal life

Dushyant Kumar was married to Rajeshwari Tyagi.

Legacy

* Parts of Dushyant Kumar's poem ""Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si"(हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी)" were used in the popular 2017 India film Irada. The film showcases the sorry state of the people of

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(

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) due to corruption, and

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caused by pesticides left from the

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and uranium contamination of

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due to fly ash from

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. * The poem "Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si"(हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी) was sung often by

Arvind Kejriwal Arvind Kejriwal (Hindi: �ɾʋin̪d̪ ked͡ʒɾiːʋaːl born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician, former bureaucrat, and activist who is the 7th and current Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. Currently, he is the national co ...

during the Anti Corruption Movement (2011–2012) in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. * Lines Dushyant Kumar from his Ghazal '''Saye Me Dhoop are often used in many programmes, and the Hindi film "'' Halla Bol''" मेरे सीने में नहीं तो तेरे सीने मे सही, हो कहीं भी आग, लेकिन आग जलनी चाहिए. Star Plus used the lines "''Sirf hungaama khada karna mera maqsad nahin, saari koshish hai, ki yeh soorat badalni chahiye"'' in promos for its show Satyameva Jayate. * The Indian Department of posts issued a commemorative stamp with Dushyant Kumar's image on it, in September 2009. * A museum dedicated to Dushyant Kumar exists in C. T. T. Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. * The poem "Tu kisi rail si guzarti hai" line was taken from his poem and used as a song in the movie '' Masaan''. * ABP News and the Hindi poet Kumar Vishwas mad
an episode on Dushyant Kumar
in their program '' Mahakavi'' which was aired on 12 and 13 November 2016. * The house of Dushyant Kumar was broken by the administration of Smart City Project. This was criticised by several leading people. Explaining the inclusion of Kumar's poems in the 2015 Hindi film Masaan, the lyricist Varun Grover explained that he wanted to show Shaalu (played by Shweta Tripathi) as a person whose hobby is to read Hindi poetry and shaayari, as this is a common hobby of millennial and generation x youngsters in Northern India, especially when in love, but this aspect is rarely shown in Hindi films.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Dushyant 1933 births 1975 deaths Hindi-language poets Hindi-language writers 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets Poets from Uttar Pradesh 20th-century Indian male writers People from Bijnor People from Bijnor district