Prof. Amartya Sen became the sixth Indian to get the Nobel Prize and the first Asian winner of the Economics prize. He also became the first solo winner of the prize for Economic since 1995. Prof. Sen was born on 3rd November 1933 in Bangladesh to Dr. Asutosh Sen and Amita Sen. Gurudev Rabindranath, the first Indian Nobel laureate christened him 'Amartya'. Young Amartya had his schooling at Shantiniketan. Then he did his graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta with credit. He went abroad for higher studies. After coming back home, he joined Jadavpur University as a professor of Economics in 1956 and taught there for a couple of years. Then Prof. Sen taught at Delhi University from 1963-1971. He went abroad to teach at London School of of Economics and Oxford University in the seventies. Prof. Sen wrote many books of which 'Poverty and Famines: An easy on Entitlement and Deprivation', 1981 and 'On Ethics and Economics' 1987 are most famous. Honors have been showered on him. He became the fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1980-1988. Prof. Sen got Adam Smith Prize in 1954. He joined Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981. He got Honorary fellowship by the Institute of Social Studies in 1984. In 1990 won Agnelli Internet Prize. He is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1997. He got Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. He received 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian award in India in 1999. He got Honorary citizenship of Bangladesh in 1999. He got Oder of Companion of Honor from UK in 2000. He received National Humanities Medal in 2011. He also got Bodley Medal in 2019 and Friendspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels in 2020. Many awards are still in store for this great Indian. Prof. Sen has been given the most prestigious Nobel Prize for his outstanding contribution to Welfare Economics. Prof. Sen is now seventy. May God grant him long life to still think for the distressed and the deprived.
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