Boxing
India's Paris Zero Wasn't a Talent Failure. It Was a Weight-Class Ledger.
The Fifty-One Kilogram Deal: Where Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window Opens
The Paper Knockout: India's LA28 Boxing Road Runs Through Camp Files and Weight Classes
The Patiala File and the Kota Desk: Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window
Crowded at 50kg, Silent at 66kg: The Empty Queue Inside Indian Boxing After Paris
India's Paris Zero Wasn't a Talent Failure. It Was a Weight-Class Ledger.Last August, on the overnight desk in Ahmedabad, I watched Lovlina Borgohain'...
The Fifty-One Kilogram Deal: Where Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window OpensThe Fifty-One Kilogram Deal: Where Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window Opens...
The Paper Knockout: India's LA28 Boxing Road Runs Through Camp Files and Weight Classes26 February 2026. At an IOC Executive Board meeting in Switzerland, World...
The Patiala File and the Kota Desk: Indian Boxing's Real Transfer WindowThree signatures go on a boxer's file at the national camp in Patiala. The...
Crowded at 50kg, Silent at 66kg: The Empty Queue Inside Indian Boxing After ParisTwo queues ran side by side at the weigh-in of the last senior national...
The Empty Hall Told Me More Than the Nine Quotas: Paris 2026 Failure Was a Construction FailureThe empty hall told me more than the nine quotas. In March 2026, when I flew ...
The Scale's Game: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is Against Kilograms, Not OpponentsThe corridor of the SAI hostel in Patiala still haunts me. It was 3 a.m., and...
Zero-Rupee Transfers: Indian Boxing's Real Ledger Sits in the Registry, Not the RingHook Six weeks before the Super Boxing League's inaugural season in June 2026...
The Shoulder Goes Quiet First, Then It Speaks: The Frames Indian Boxing Coverage Never WatchesTokyo, July 2026. Hours before the welterweight opener, I filed a three-line...
From Nine in Amman to Six in Paris: The Shrinking Quota Ledger of Indian BoxingParis, 3 August 2026. The 71kg quarterfinal verdict was being read out and...