Yagana Changezi

Mirza Yaas Yagana Changezi (1884-1956) (Urdu: مرزا یاس یگانہ چنگیزی ‎) was an Indian Urdu-language poet.

Changezi was born as Mirza Wajid Hussain (chronological name Mirza Fazl ali Baig).He was born in Azeemabad, now Patna (Bihar), India, in 1884. He was a bright student who won scholarships, but he could not proceed beyond the entrance examination that he passed at Calcutta University. At an early period of his life he shifted to Matyaburj, in Calcutta, where he became the tutor of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah’s grandson Mirza Muqeem and his children. The climate of Matyaburj did not suit him and he returned to Azeemabad and later shifted to Lucknow.

Initially he used the pen name 'Yaas', which means despair, and addressed himself as Yaas Azeemabadi, but changed it later on to 'Yagana' (meaning unique), and became Yagana Lackhnawi (and finally Yagana Changezi). He considered himself from the Changezi mughal lineage.He was in the sixth generation of ancestors who migrated from Iran during Mughal era. According to the foreword in his first poetry collection,Nashtar-e-Yaas, two brothers Hasan Ali Baig Chughtai and Murad Ali Baig Chughtai came from Iran, and became part of Mughal court, one of whom got the jagir of Azeemabad and settled there. He was in the lineage of Mirza Hasan Baig Chughtai.

Seeing Ghalib's veneration, he attacked Ghalib's iconic status and that earned him hostility of his contemporaries in Lucknow and elsewhere. He was ostracized and harassed for his views and writings. Finally he was declared apostate and went through extreme kind of humiliation at the hands of people in Lucknow; the very people he had so fondly adopted that he changed his mame from Yaas Azeemabadi to Yagana Luckhnawi. He himself writes:

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