Amartya Sen

• Status: living (as of writing)
• Chart pointers (PVNR): D-10 (career) Gemini lagna; 10th house Pisces holds Mars + Sun in a parivartana with Jupiter (in Scorpio) — each planet borrowing the other's strength (a scholar's career uplifted by Jupiter's wisdom).

• Kind of work: academic and intellectual — economist, philosopher, university professor and author; work of pure intellect, ethics and analysis (Mercury/Jupiter; 5th & 9th — learning and wisdom), not commerce or office.
• Fame: world-renowned — one of the most cited and respected economists alive; a household name in India and academia globally.
• Position / power: the highest honours of the scholarly world — Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004, the first Asian to hold it), chaired professorships at Harvard, Oxford, LSE; Nobel Memorial Prize (1998); Bharat Ratna (1999), India's highest civilian honour.
• Wealth: comfortably off as an eminent academic, not a tycoon; donated his Nobel prize money to found the Pratichi Trust (literacy, health, gender equity).
• Legal / negative: no scandal; some later political controversy in India (e.g. a public dispute over Nalanda University governance, ~2015) and three marriages.
• Health: survived oral cancer at 18 (treated with radiation) — a brush with mortality in youth.
• Death: alive.

• 1933 — born on the Visva-Bharati campus at Santiniketan; the name "Amartya" was reportedly given by Rabindranath Tagore.
• 1943 — as a boy, witnessed the Bengal Famine (~3 million dead) — the searing experience that shaped his life's work on hunger and deprivation.
• ~1951 — diagnosed with mouth cancer at 18; underwent radiation and survived.
• early 1950s — educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, then Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 1955–56 — first academic post; became (very young) head of the economics department at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
• 1959 — PhD from Cambridge.
• 1960s–70s — professorships at the Delhi School of Economics (a golden era there), then the London School of Economics and Oxford.
• 1981 — publishes "Poverty and Famines," showing famines arise from entitlement failure (people losing the means to buy food) rather than mere shortage — a paradigm shift.
• 1980s — develops the "capability approach"; with Mahbub ul Haq, lays the conceptual basis for the UN Human Development Index (HDI); influential work on social-choice theory (building on Arrow), gender inequality and "missing women."
• 1987–98 — Lamont University Professor at Harvard.
• 1998 — awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 1999 — receives the Bharat Ratna; publishes "Development as Freedom."
• 2009 — publishes "The Idea of Justice."
• continuing — remains an active public intellectual on democracy, secularism, justice and inequality, splitting time between Harvard and India.

Nature & mind

• A rigorous, humane reasoner who bridges economics, philosophy and ethics; famous for moral seriousness, lucidity and a lifelong concern with the worst-off. Politically liberal-secular, often critical of inequality and majoritarianism.

Profession, fame & status

• A career of teaching, research and writing at the very top of global academia, capped by the Nobel and the Trinity mastership — the scholarly equivalent of the highest "office."

Wealth

• Modest by celebrity standards; notably gave away his Nobel winnings to philanthropy in Bengal.

Family & relationships

• Married three times — to writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen (divorced), to Eva Colorni (who died of cancer in 1985), and to historian Emma Rothschild; several children, including filmmaker/activist daughters.

Health

• The teenage cancer survival is the standout health event; long-lived and active into his 90s.

• A D-10 parivartana example: the Mars–Jupiter exchange linking the 10th-house Mars/Sun with Jupiter (wisdom, higher learning, teaching) — each planet lending the other strength, fitting a career built on profound scholarship recognised at the highest level. (Used in the lesson to teach the parivartana mechanic.)

PVNR SJC lessons — Lesson 8 (D-10 career analysis; house-exchange / parivartana). Life events from the public record.