Boxing
Four Golds, Six Quotas, One Zero: Auditing Indian Boxing's Ledger
The Fight Outside the Ring: LA28's Calendar Will Decide Indian Boxing's Next Round
The Weight Class India Spent a Decade Building Does Not Exist in Los Angeles
Six Boxers, Zero Medals in Paris: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is Being Fought Outside the Ring
Six Boxers, Zero Medals in Paris: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is Being Fought Outside the RingAugust 2026, Paris. Men's 71kg quarterfinal, Nishant Dev against Marco Verde....
57.4 Kilograms and a Pencil Strike: Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window Runs on Payrolls and Trial SheetsAt twenty minutes past seven on a February morning in the SAI NIS hall in...
Nine Quotas, One Empty Calendar: The Real Weight Problem in Indian BoxingSix-forty in the morning, NIS Patiala. Outside the weigh-in room: eleven...
Seven Kilograms, Eleven Boxers and a Queue: The Four Days in Patiala When the Weighing Scale Decided CareersThe chairs outside the weigh-in room at the SAI NIS hostel in Patiala were...
Six Empty Fists in Paris: India's Boxing Crisis Is Governance, Not TalentThat night in August 2026 at the North Paris Arena, Nishant Dev's gloves came...
Four Golds, Six Quotas, One Zero: Auditing Indian Boxing's LedgerTwo documents sit on my desk, side by side. The first is dated 26 March 2026,...
Indian Boxing's Real Opponent: A Decade Trapped Between 48 and 57 KilogramsIndian Boxing's Real Opponent: A Decade Trapped Between 48 and 57 Kilograms...
The Fight Outside the Ring: LA28's Calendar Will Decide Indian Boxing's Next RoundIndian boxing left Paris 2026 with nothing — the first medal-less Olympics...
Boxing's Transfer Window: The LA28 Map Has Changed, But the Payroll List Hasn'tIndia had six boxers at Paris 2026. Zero medals. That number was printed...
Four Quotas, Zero Men: When the Spreadsheet Speaks Before the StadiumParis, North Paris Arena, July 30, 2026. Nikhat Zareen was facing Wu Yu. In m...
The Weight Class India Spent a Decade Building Does Not Exist in Los Angeles1 August 2026. North Paris Arena, evening session. Nishant Dev loses the 71kg...