Tuhin K. Roy (1923–2019)

Dr Tuhin Kumar Roy was born in Munghyr, Bihar, India, on 1 August 1923. His father, Rakhal Raj Roy was a lawyer who practised in Burdwan. Roy received an informal education at home until the age of seven. He was taught by his mother and a tutor who would come home to teach him. He lost his mother while he was 7 years old. At this point, he was admitted to the Burdwan Town School for boys, one of the three main schools in Burdwan at the time, straight into grade III. He always topped in the class of 30 students and was given a scholarship on merit, with free tuition fees from class V onwards to Matriculation.