Dushyant Kumar

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

Dushyant Kumar was married to Rajeshwari Tyagi.[2]

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
  thermal power plants.^[3]
• The poem "Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si"(हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी) was sung often by Arvind Kejriwal during the Anti Corruption Movement (2011–2012) in India.^[4][5]
• Lines Dushyant Kumar from his
  Satyameva Jayate.^[6][7]
• The
  Indian Department of posts issued a commemorative stamp with Dushyant Kumar's image on it, in September 2009.^[8][9]
• A museum dedicated to Dushyant Kumar exists in C. T. T. Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.[10]^[11]
• The poem "Tu kisi rail si guzarti hai" line was taken from his poem and used as a song in the movie Masaan.
• 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.^[12]

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.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

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