[1] Her Muslim mother, Sultana Kamal, is a lawyer and human rights activist who runs a legal aid organisation in Bangladesh.
[1] Chakravarty attended a school in Sylhet her parents set up which taught the British Council-regulated O-level curriculum and examination syllabus.
[2] She then got a partial scholarship[1] to sixth-form college in Oxford, to board and sit her A-levels,[2] after her parents remortgaged their family home, she left for the UK[1] in 2001.
[3] Her lawyer mother, who had spent most of her life doing voluntary work until then, moved to Dhaka, to take up a full-time job.
[3] Chakravarty started her career as a tax consultant in London before moving into communication and public affairs.
[7] In August 2014, Chakravarty appeared on BBC Two's Newsnight, discussing consultancy culture in the public sector.
She met her husband while at school and decided to settle in England after completing her university and Bar examinations.
[3] A Bloom in Vain and Other Songs (Bengali: কত চামেলি বৃথা যায়) is the debut studio album by Dia Chakravarty, released on 22 August 2014.
[19] Mosabber Rahman of the Dhaka Tribune said of Chakravarty, "Her voice lacks pretension, and she has the sincerity of a schoolgirl preparing for the final exam".