Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was a Bengali

Bengali people

The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

 educator and humanist of the former East Pakistan

East Pakistan

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, now Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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. He was one of the Bengali intellectuals assaulted by Pakistan Army

Pakistan Army

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 during the 1971 Dhaka University massacre

1971 Dhaka University massacre

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 on the night of 25 March 1971.

Early life

Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was born to Kumudchandra Guhathakurta and Srimati Sumati on 10 July 1920 in Mymensingh

Mymensingh

Mymensingh , pronounced moy-mon-shing-haw, is a city of Bangladesh situated on the river Brahmaputra. It is the headquarters of the administrative unit Mymensingh District. Mymensingh is the anglicized pronunciation of the original name Momenshahi, referring to a ruler called Momen Shah. The cadet...

 town. Both of his parents were school teachers. After matriculating in 1936 from Mymensingh Zilla School

Mymensingh Zilla School

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, he joined Presidency College

Presidency College

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 in Kolkata

Kolkata

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 to study Intermediate Science. But he could not attend his final exams there because of Typhoid. He came back to Mymensingh and took admission in Anandamohan College from where he passed Intermediate Arts in 1939. Guhathakurta then got himself admitted in the Department of English of Dhaka University and graduated with honors in 1942, standing first in the class. His excellent academic results earned him the Pope Memorial Gold Medal. He completed his masters the following year in the same institute.