Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta (Bengali: জ্যোতির্ময় গুহঠাকুরতা; July 10, 1920 - March 30, 1971) was a Bengali educator and humanist of the former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. He was one of the Bengali intellectuals assaulted by Pakistan Army during the 1971 Dhaka University massacre on the night of 25 March 1971.
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Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was born to Kumudchandra Guhathakurta and Srimati Sumati on 10 July 1920 in Mymensingh town. Both of his parents were school teachers. After matriculating in 1936 from Mymensingh Zilla School, he joined Presidency College in Kolkata 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.[1]