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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Brij Narayan Chakbast<br />
| image = Brij Narayan Chakbast.jpg<br />
| birth_date = 19 January 1882<br />
| birth_place = [[Faizabad]], [[North-West Provinces]], [[British India]]<br> (now [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]])<br />
| death_date = 12 February 1926<br> (aged 44)<br />
| death_place = [[Raebareli]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br> (now [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]) <br />
| father = Pandit Udit Narayan Chakbast<br />
}}<br />
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'''Brij Narayan Chakbast''' (19 January 1882 {{endash}} 12 February 1926), also spelled as '''Brij Narain Chakbast''', was a [[British Raj|British Indian]] [[Urdu]] poet.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
Chakbast (1882–1926) was an [[Urdu]] poet. He was born on 19 January 1882 in a [[Kashmiri Pandit]] family settled in North [[India]] in the 15th century A.D.. Chakbast was born in [[Faizabad]] (near [[Lucknow]]) in 1882. His father Pandit Udit Narayan Chakbast, was born at Lucknow in, circa 1843, and he was also a poet. Pandit Udit Narayan was deputy collector, the highest post that any Indian could have at that time.<ref>Chakbast By Saraswati Saran, page 13</ref> After the death of his father in 1887, the family moved to Lucknow and they started living in Kashmiri Mohalla of Lucknow. Chakbast was educated in Lucknow, and he became a successful lawyer. Chakbast married in 1905, but lost his wife and first child in 1906. He married again in 1907, and settled down as a practising lawyer at Lucknow. On 12 February 1926, he collapsed at the railway station in [[Rae Bareli]] and died a few hours later at the age of 44.<br />
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Chakbast made a thorough study of Urdu poetry. He defended [[Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim]] when it was suggested that he was not the author of the epic ''Gul Bakawali''.<br />
He was actively involved in social and political affairs, and was a strong proponent of the [[Home Rule]] and actively participated in the [[Home Rule Movement]].<ref>Encyclopaedia of Kashmir By Suresh K. Sharma, S. R. Bakshi</ref><br />
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== Education ==<br />
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Chakbast's early education was in Faizabad. After his father's death his family moved to Lucknow, and it was here he completed his remaining education. He earned his degree of [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1905, and [[L.L.B.]] in 1907, from [[Canning College]], Lucknow, which was affiliated with [[Allahabad University]] at that time. Later, he became a successful lawyer.<br />
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== Works ==<br />
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Chakbast was primarily a poet but his prose is also considered at par with his poetry.<br />
Chakbast's premature death was a great loss for Urdu but whatever he left is exemplary and is considered among the gems of Urdu literature. He was strongly influenced by [[Ghalib]], [[Mir Anis]] and [[Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish|Aatish]]. Chakbast was primarily a [[nazm]] poet. He began his poetic career with a nazm in 1894. He wrote nazms, mathnavi, a play, and about 50 ghazals. His Ramayan ka ek Scene is strongly remniscent of [[Marsiya]] of Mir Anis. His verses from his ghazal <br />
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:''Zindagi kya hai anasir mein zahur-e tarteeb,''<br />
:''Maut kya hai ini ajza ka pareshan hona''<br />
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:''Zarra Zarra hai mere Kashmir ka mehmaan nawaaz,''<br />
:''raah mein pathar ke tukdoon ne diya pani mujhe''<br />
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''Subh-e Watan'' is collected works of Chakbast as its title and many of its poems reflect about his intense patriotism, predominantly a central theme of his poetry.<br />
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''Khak-e-Hind''<br />
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''Gulzar-e-Naseem'' a masnavi,<br />
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''Ramayan ka ek scene'' musaddas<br />
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''Nala-e-Dard''<br />
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''Nala-e-Yaas'', and a play named<br />
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''Kamla''<br />
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''Kulliyate-Chakbast'' and ''Maqalaat-e-Chakbast'' is the complete collection of Chakbast's works in poetry and prose that was published posthumously on the birth centenary of the poet, compiled by Kalidas Gupta 'Raza' around 1983.<br />
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Chakbast considered himself a poet of the nation. His main aim of the poetry was to influence the youth to love and respect his country and work for its development. <br />
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==Legacy==<br />
The 2015 film [[Masaan]] starts with and contains various examples of [[Urdu poetry]] by Chakbast along with the works of [[Basheer Badr]], [[Akbar Allahabadi]], [[Mirza Ghalib]] and [[Dushyant Kumar]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lakhani |first1=Somya |title=Secret Love: How Hindi poetry has become 'cool' |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/secret-love-hindi-kavita-youtube-channel-hindi-literature-3024758/ |access-date=17 April 2019 |publisher=The Indian Express |date=11 September 2016}}</ref> Explaining this as a conscious tribute, the film's lyrics writer [[Varun Grover (writer)|Varun Grover]] explained that he wanted to show <br />
Shaalu (portrayed by Shweta Tripathi) as a person whose hobby is to read Hindi poetry and [[Urdu poetry|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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hindi Kavita - Kuch ban jaate hain - Uday Prakash: Varun Grover in Hindi Studio with Manish Gupta |publisher=Hindi Kavita |date=25 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pal |first1=Sanchari |title=Meet the NRI Who Returned To India To Make Millions Fall in Love with Hindi Poetry |url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/68222/manish-gupta-youtube-hindi-poetry/ |website=www.thebetterindia.com |publisher=The Better India |access-date=17 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Grover |first1=Varun |title=How the magic of Dushyant Kumar's poetry inspired this Bollywood lyricist |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/how-the-magic-of-dushyant-kumars-poetry-inspired-this-bollywood-lyricist/ |access-date=17 April 2019 |publisher=The Indian Express}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Marsia]]<br />
*[[Musaddas]]<br />
*[[Mir Anis]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chakbast-brij-narayan/profile Brij Narayan Chakbast] at [[Rekhta (website)|Rekhta]]<br />
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