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Mar 01, 1935 Dinajpur, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh 89 years old
Bangladeshi academic
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About Ajoy Roy
- Ajoy Roy (1 March 1935 – 9 December 2019) was a Bangladeshi professor of physics at the University of Dhaka, but was best known for his prominent role in Bangladesh's human rights activism and freethinking.
- He was one of the eminent educationists promoting secular humanism in Bangladesh. He was the founder and president of the Shishka Andolan Mancha (Platform For Education-Movement) and chairman of Shamriti Mancha (Platform for peace-harmony-tranquility). Roy was editor in chief of Muktanwesa (Bengali: ????????????) magazine, a Bengali publication for promoting freethinking and Secular Humanism.
- He was also the member of advisory board of the Mukto-Mona, an internet forum of freethinkers, rationalists, sceptics, atheists and humanists of mainly Bengali and South Asian descent.
- He was an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist International, an organisation that defends rationalist ideas.
- He contributed as a columnist to the national newspapers of Bangladesh.
- In 2012, he received Ekushey Padak, the highest civilian award of Bangladesh.
