Meghna Guhathakurta
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Meghna Guhathakurta is a retired professor of international relations of the University of Dhaka.[1][2] She is the executive director of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh.[3][4] She is a member of the executive committee of the Ain o Salish Kendra.[5] She is a member of the advisory panel of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Human Security & Governance.[6]
Guhathakurta's father, Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War.[7] She was a member of the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh.[6] She is an advisor to the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission.[6]
Guhathakurta's father was Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, professor of the University of Dhaka and provost of Jagannath Hall, and mother was Basanti Guhathakurta.[8][9] His father was shot by Pakistan Army soldiers at the teachers dormitory of the University of Dhaka along with ANM Muniruzzaman on 25 March 1971 during Operation Searchlight.[8] Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta died five days later at Dhaka Medical College Hospital but his body was later disappeared.[8]
Guhathakurta studied at the Holy Cross Girls High School.[10] After Guhathakurta finished her master's degree at the University of Dhaka, she completed her at the University of York.[11]