Kamala Bhattacharya was an Indian student who was martyred in the Bengali Language Movement in Silchar in 1961.

Kamala was born to Ramraman Bhattacharya and Suprabasini Devi, the fifth of seven children in the year 1945 in the erstwhile Sylhet district in Assam.

In the 1950 East Pakistan genocide, hundreds of Hindus were killed in Sylhet and they migrated to India in large numbers.

[1] Kamala's family used to stay in a rented accommodation in Silchar Public School Road.

[1] The very next day after the matriculation exams, a picketing was being organized in Silchar railway station demanding Bengali as the medium of education.

On the morning of May 19, after taking a bath, Kamala wore the saree of her elder sister Pratibha and prepared to go to picketing.

Kamala washed her mother's feet of the dust, gave her a sharbat and then sent her back home.

As Kamala rushed to the rescue of her younger sister, a bullet pierced through her eye and hit her head.