Kamalendu Deb Krori (born 21 January 1930) is an Indian theoretical physicist and the former Principal of Cotton College. He pioneered research on general relativity in the North Eastern region of India and guided 16 scholars for their Ph.D degrees. He has co-authored almost 150 peer-reviewed research papers in International Journals. He is known for the “Krori-Barua Solution” a general relativistic solution for a singularity free charged fluid sphere (1975) ; the pertinent paper has more than 150 citations. In 1982, Krori along with two students showed why the elusive fundamental particles neutrinos, originally believed to be mass-less like the photons, must possess some finite rest mass in order to be consistent with Einstein’s general theory of relativity.