Ajoy Roy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ajoy Roy

Bangladeshi academic

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Dinajpur, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh

Profession: professor, physicist

Nationality: Pakistan, Bangladesh

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.