Barun Biswas (12 September 1972 – 5 July 2012) was a Bengali school teacher and social activist from Sutia in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. Born to parents who migrated from Bangladesh after the 1971 Liberation War, he had humble beginnings but pursued education, earning a BA in Bengali, a master’s degree from Calcutta University, and a B.Ed, before beginning his teaching career around 1998. Barun became famous for co-founding the Sutia Gonodhorshon Pratibad Mancha in 2000, a people’s platform that protested against a criminal gang involved in multiple crimes including gang‐rape, extortion, and terrorizing the local villages; he helped victims lodge police reports, pushed for justice, and campaigned for civic issues like flood control via canal construction. On 5 July 2012, he was shot from behind outside Gobardanga railway station and died; the murder is widely believed to have been orchestrated by the implicated gang’s leader. His life inspired the Bengali film Proloy (2013), and he is remembered as a brave voice for justice and social reform in his community.