[1] He was active in politics after the establishment of Pakistan but continued his poetic career and till this day is revered as the "people's poet".
Chiragh Deen was born in Lahore, British Punjab to a Punjabi Muslim family on 3 September 1911.
A tailor by profession, in 1930, he stitched a suit for Mian Iftikharuddin, who got impressed by his inspiring poetry verse, when the two met each other at his shop.
Pandit Nehru, who was present at that public meeting, dubbed him the ‘Poet of Freedom’ after listening to his revolutionary anti-imperialist poetry.
[1][2][4] At the time of the 1947 Partition of British India, his shop and house were burned down by rioting mobs and his wife and young daughter were killed.