Boxing
Six Boxers, Zero Medals in Paris: Indian Boxing's Real Fracture Sits in the Payroll and the Quota PipelineThree rounds, one split decision: Mexico's Marco Verde took the Paris men's...
Paint-in-the-Corner: The Bout That Could Have Reshaped Boxing's Institutional MetricsIn the world of boxing, every fight is not just about what happens in the rin...
13 Weight Classes, 248 Boxers and a Clause With No Number: How Boxing's LA28 Survival Was Settled on Paper16 October 2026, Mumbai. The 141st IOC Session put its seal on boxing's place...
Indian Boxing's Real Defeat Wasn't in Paris — It Was in a Services Selection FileThe first time I said it out loud, three group chats went quiet. It was the...
Thirteen Weight Classes, Two Rulebooks, One Empty Table: Auditing Boxing's TransitionThere is a moment before the verdict when the whole stadium looks at the same...
LA28's Weight Redraw: Six Men's Classes, and India Still Has No MapLast week a bout sheet from a domestic trial landed in my hands. The same...
The 48 and 81 Arithmetic: The Season Indian Women's Boxing Never Got After Four GoldsThe mixed zone at the KD Jadhav Hall on the night of 24 November 2026 had...
Paris Zero Was Not a Talent Crash — the LA28 Calendar Is Repeating the Mistake in Slow MotionThe last Indian boxer climbed out of the ring in Paris and I did not close my...
Indian Boxing's Ledger After Paris: Six Quotas, Zero Medals and an Empty SeasonI begin with the autopsy, because the verdict usually hides the incentives. I...
The Patiala Register, the LA28 File: The Real Ledger of Indian BoxingFive-forty in the morning. The register lies open on the desk at the main gat...
The Weight Classes Moved. The Jobs Didn't. The Real Scorecard of Indian Boxing.On a January morning at SAI NIS in Patiala, I stood behind a weighing scale a...