Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta

Jyotirmoy Guhatha-kurta (July 10, 1920 ) 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.

Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was born to Kumudchandra Guhatha-kurta and Srimati Sumati on 10 July 1920 in Mymensingh town. Both of his parents were school teachers. In 1949 he joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer in English. In 1963, he went to King's College, London University, on a British Council scholarship to do doctoral work on "Classical Myths in the Plays of Swinburne, Bridges, Sturges, Moore, and Eliot". After midnight 25 March 1971, Professor Jotirmoy Guhathakurta was shot in the dark by the Pakistani Army just outside the University building where he lived while at the same time another professor A.N.M.