Mr. Hari Pada Roychoudhury of Karimganj is a native of Sylhet of undivided India. He earned a Master of Science degree and LLB from GU in India and a PhD from UMIST in the United Kingdom. He left the job in the UK and returned to India for the service of his countrymen. He served at Cotton College as Professor of Chemistry until retirement. Gandhi had made him a street boy by the partition of Bengal.