Kali Nath Roy

Kali Nath Roy (1878 – 9 December 1945) was a Bengali nationalist journalist and the Chief Editor of the newspaper The Tribune. His son Samarendra Nath Roy was a mathematician and applied statistician.

Early life Roy was born in 1878 in Khulna, British India. While studying F.A. in Scottish Church College in Kolkata he joined in anti British movement and left college. He started work as sub editor of Bengali Magazine, edited by Surendranath Banerjee. Government accused him for publication of seditious writings. Roy was popular for his fearless, brave articles and known as Kali Babu. Mahatma Gandhi praised Roy's political writings in 1932. Roy and The Tribune published seven allegedly seditious articles from April 3, 1919 through April 11, 1919, leading up to the April 13th massacre of the Indians at the hands of the British in the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. For this Roy was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years along with a fine of one thousand rupees.