Bangkok - 1966
Amartya Kumar Sen won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for
his work on poverty, famine, human rights and inequality. He is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, which until
then had been won by either Europeans or Americans.Amartya, whose name means One who is Immortal, was born in Santiniketan on November 2, 1933, in the family of a Sanskrit scholar, Acharya Kshiti Mohan Sen. He was christened Amartya by Rabindranath Tagore. Two tragic events of the 1940s had a profound effect on his young mind - the Bengal famine of 1943 in which 3 million people perished, and the pre-partition Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946 in which thousands were massacred.
Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, on inequality and on the measurement of poverty, work that many believe has saved many lives. Sen showed that famine was not just a consequence of nature, but also an avoidable economic and political catastrophe. Drought and flood often precede starvation, but declines in food production rarely account for it.
Athletes: 2,500 athletes and officials from 18 countries
Debut Sport: Women's Volleyball
Top 3 Countries: Japan (78G, 53S, 33B), Korea (12G, 18S, 21B), Thailand (12G, 14S, 11B)
- Taiwan and Israel returned to the Asian Games, reversing the decision taken by Indonesia
in the previous Asiad to debar the two countries.
- India's results in hockey were: beat Malaysia 1-0, beat Sri Lanka 3-0 and beat South
Korea 5-0.
- Pakistan's results were: beat Hong Kong 5-0 and beat Thailand 13-0.
- In the semi-finals, India beat Japan 3-0, while Pakistan beat Malaysia 5-1. In the final, India finally broke its gold medal drought by winning its first hockey title in the Asian Games, beating Pakistan 1-0.
Final Standings:
1 - India, 2 - Pakistan, 3 - Japan, 4 - Malaysia, 5 - Sri Lanka, 6 - South Korea, 7 - Hong Kong, 8 - Thailand
Indian Team:
Punjab Prithipal Singh, Dharam Singh, Jagjeet Singh, Balbir Singh, Tarsem Singh, Harmeek Singh, Jagdeep Singh Services Shankar Lakshman (captain), Balbir Singh, V. J. Peter, Haripal Kaushik, N. Toppo Railways Mohinder Lal, A. L. Frank, Harbinder Singh, Inder Singh, Balbir Singh Bengal Gurbaksh Singh Officials Randhir Singh Gentle (coach), Inder Mohan Mahajan (manager)