Dia Sudeshna Chakravarty is a Bangladeshi-born British political activist, former political director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, singer, and Brexit Editor of The Daily Telegraph.
12 Facts About Dia Chakravarty
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Dia Chakravarty's Muslim mother, Sultana Kamal, is a lawyer and human rights activist who runs a legal aid organisation in Bangladesh.
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Dia Chakravarty has grown up with threatening telephone calls and her home has been firebombed twice.
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Dia Chakravarty attended a school in Sylhet her parents set up which taught the British Council-regulated O-level curriculum and examination syllabus.
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Dia Chakravarty then got a partial scholarship to sixth-form college in Oxford, to board and sit her A-levels, after her parents remortgaged their family home, she left for the UK in 2001.
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Dia Chakravarty studied Law at the University of Oxford and became a Barrister in 2008.
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Dia Chakravarty started her career as a tax consultant in London before moving into communication and public affairs.
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Dia Chakravarty worked for Banking on Change, a global partnership between Barclays Bank and two international charities seeking to extend access to basic financial services through savings-led microfinance.
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Dia Chakravarty took her first music lesson from Prateek Enda in Sylhet and had an early start in her musical training in Rabindranath Tagore songs.
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Dia Chakravarty now takes lessons from London-based singer-master Anuradha Roma Choudhury.
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Dia Chakravarty met her husband while at school and decided to settle in England after completing her university and Bar examinations.
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Dia Chakravarty, having studied law at the University of Oxford, chose songs of composers, who, except for Dwijendralal, studied law, including Tagore who eventually dropped out; and except for Rajanikanta, every one of them went to England for higher studies.