Pandit Udit Narayan was deputy collector, the highest post that any Indian could have at that time.

He defended Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim when it was suggested that he was not the author of the epic Gul Bakawali.

His verses from his ghazal 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.

Khak-e-Hind Gulzar-e-Naseem a mathnawi, Ramayan ka ek scene musaddas Nala-e-Dard Nala-e-Yaas, and a play named Kamla 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.

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.

[3] Explaining this as a conscious tribute, the film's lyrics writer Varun Grover explained that he wanted to show Shaalu (portrayed 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.