Chiragh Hasan Hasrat
| Chiragh Hasan Hasrat چراغ حسن حسرت |
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| Born | Chiragh Hasan Hasrat 1904 Baramula, Kashmir |
| Died | June 26, 1955 (aged 50–51) Lahore |
| Pen name | Columbus Koocha Gard Sindbaad Jahazi |
| Occupation | Poet, Journalist |
| Language | Urdu |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
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Chiragh Hasan Hasrat (Urdu: چراغ حسن حسرت Born 1904, Baramula, Kashmir ) was a Poet and Journalist. He began composing poetry when he was still a student at school. He was born in Kashmir but after matriculation he migrated to Pakistan. Early in his career Chiragh started teaching at various local schools in Urdu and Persian. He wrote 16 Books. He was also associated with several newspapers like Insaa, Zamindar, Sheeraza, Shahbaz. He used different pen names including Columbus, Koocha Gard and Sindbaad Jahazi.
In 1920 he joined a school at Shimla as a Persian teacher where he met Abul Kalam Azad. He was impressed by him 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.
In 1925, Hasrat joined the newspaper Nai Dunya (the new world).Here he used to write a famous column Kalkatte ki baten under the penname of Columbus. Due to this column he became very famous and most senior journalists appreciated him.
After that he joined Asr-e-Jadeed as assistant editor where he wrote a humor column Mataibaat under the penname of Koocha Gard and it further increased his reputation as a journalist and humorist.
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