Azim Premji

This page is computed from chart data produced by the NAKSHATRA backend using the documented birth date and coordinates. Planetary positions, Shadbala scores, and yoga detection are calculated algorithmically.

No birth time has been found for Azim Premji. Without a time of birth, the Lagna, house assignments, and dasha sequence cannot be computed. The NAKSHATRA backend has no reliable chart to display. What this page can offer is a sign level read based on the birth date alone, plus an approximate Moon position.

Data quality is marked Disputed. Birth date (24 Jul 1945) is confirmed from multiple sources. Birth time is unknown.

Born on 24 July 1945, the Sun was in Cancer or at the cusp of Cancer and Leo, depending on the exact time of birth. The boundary between Cancer and Leo in the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri ayanamsa) falls at a specific degree, and without a birth time, we cannot confirm which sign the Sun occupies.

If the Sun is in Cancer, it is in the sign of the Moon, a sign associated in Jyotisha with sensitivity to people, a focus on home and community, and a long memory for relationships and loyalties. If the Sun has crossed into Leo by birth time, it moves into its own sign, which gives it more authority and directness.

Either way, the Sun's position on 24 July 1945 is close to a sign boundary. This is worth noting simply as a limitation on what the chart can tell us.

On 24 July 1945, the Moon was approximately in Cancer in the Nakshatra Pushya. This is the most stable chart fact available for Premji, and it is still approximate: the Moon moves about 13 degrees per day, so the Moon's exact nakshatra could shift depending on the time of birth.

Pushya is one of the most consistently well-regarded Nakshatras in classical Jyotisha. Its core associations are nourishment, protection, generosity, and the kind of steady effort that builds something durable over time. For someone whose career was built over five decades of patient expansion, and whose later years have been defined by systematic large scale giving, the Pushya association is at least not contradictory.

That said, this is approximate. It should be read as a tentative layer rather than a confirmed fact.

In Jyotisha, the birth time determines the Lagna (rising sign), the house assignments for every planet, and the starting point of the dasha sequence. Without a birth time, none of these are available. This means no house based analysis, no dasha based timing, and no Lagna specific character reading.

What remains are the sign positions of the outer slower moving planets: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu. These move slowly enough that their signs are known from the birth date alone. Moon and Sun positions are approximately known.

For Azim Premji, sign level placements can describe a certain type of energy or capacity. They cannot be organized into a structured chart reading without the missing birth time.

Premji took charge of Western India Vegetable Products in 1966 at age 21, after his father's sudden death. He had been studying at Stanford and returned to India to manage a business he had not expected to inherit so soon.

Over the following decade, he steadily shifted the company's direction. By the late 1970s, with IBM's departure from India and the growing demand for computing hardware, Wipro moved into technology products. The pivot was gradual rather than dramatic, and Premji has described it in interviews as a pragmatic business decision rather than a visionary leap.

By the 1990s, Wipro was a significant software exporter. By the 2000s, it was one of the largest IT services companies in India. The transformation took about 30 years.

In 2010, Premji pledged more than a third of his equity in Wipro to the Azim Premji Foundation. By 2019, that commitment had grown substantially. The Foundation focuses on public education, working with government school systems across multiple Indian states.

Premji has stated publicly that his intent is to give away the large majority of his personal wealth during his lifetime. He has said this is not unusual for a businessman to do, and has declined much of the public recognition that often accompanies large charitable commitments.

The scale of the Foundation's work and the sustained commitment over more than a decade puts it among the larger private philanthropic efforts in India's history.