It is also a popular pen name for Urdu poets in India and Pakistan.
In Hindi and Urdu, the word Hasrat meaning "wish" or "desire".
An Indian revolutionary Ashfaqulla Khan (1900-1927) also used to write Urdu poetry with this pen name; the full name of Ashfaq was Mohammad Ashfaqulla Khan Warsi 'Hasrat'.
His popular couplet "zindagi (زندگی ) baad-e-fanaa tujhko milegii 'Hasrat', Teraa jiinaa tere marne ki badault hogaa."
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