Boxing
After Paris, Indian Boxing: The Quota Map, Redrawn Weight Classes, and the Names Missing From the Next List
Indian Boxing's Real Selection Trial Is Written on an Appointment Letter
India's Real Boxing Selection Trial Is Held in a Railways Office
The Kilogram Lottery: In Indian Boxing, a Notification Decides a Career, Not an Opponent
The Patiala Scale and the Delhi Letterhead: Indian Boxing's Real Selection Is a Payroll, Not a Podium
Six Boxers and One Ignored Column: The Real Selection Sheet of Indian Boxing
The Patiala Scale and the Delhi Letterhead: Indian Boxing's Real Selection Is a Payroll, Not a PodiumThe weighing scale at the SAI NIS hall in Patiala is set up at half past six...
After Paris, Indian Boxing: The Quota Map, Redrawn Weight Classes, and the Names Missing From the Next ListOn the night of August 1, 2026, the loudest sound in the mixed zone under the...
Indian Boxing's Real Selection Trial Is Written on an Appointment LetterIn November 2026 I was sitting in the KD Jadhav Hall in Delhi, watching Mary...
Six Boxers and One Ignored Column: The Real Selection Sheet of Indian BoxingIn the summer of 2026, in Mumbai, I built a spreadsheet. Six franchises of th...
Six Quotas, No Medal: India's Boxing Ledger Is Written in Weight ClassesJune 5, 2026, Bangkok. Jaismine Lamboria's hand went up in the 57kg semifinal...
Four 1-4 Cards, Six Entries, One Empty Hall: The Unfinished Ledger of Indian BoxingFour bout sheets from Paris sit on my desk in the same order. Preeti Pawar,...
India's Real Boxing Selection Trial Is Held in a Railways OfficeIn November 2026 I sat in Delhi's KD Jadhav Hall for a bout I had not come to...
The Card Changed, the Judges Didn't: Whose Paperwork Testifies in Boxing's New GovernanceIn 2026 I was boxing at 63.5kg out of Rotunda ABC in Kirkdale, and I was in t...
Change the Weight Class, Change the Career: The Unwritten Selection Arithmetic of Indian BoxingMarch 2026, Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. Nikhat Zareen walks into...
Two Files, One NOC: Indian Boxing’s Real Transfer WindowA register lay open in the back room of the Saroornagar Indoor Stadium. It wa...
Indian Boxing's Real Scorecard Isn't With the Judges — It's in the Weight ClassesNorth Paris Arena, August 2026. Men's 71kg quarterfinal, Nishant Dev against...
The Scale Moved, the Spotlight Didn't: Women's Boxing's New Weight Map and the Unfinished Qualification BuildingThe tension outside the weigh-in room at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in...
Paris Zero, World Boxing's Rankings, and the Indian Domestic Calendar Nobody PrintedLast week I opened World Boxing's ranking page for the 71kg category three...
Six Boxers, Zero Medals: Calling Paris a Talent Drought Is Indian Boxing's Oldest Alibi3 August 2026, North Paris Arena. In the 71kg quarterfinal, Nishant Dev did...
The Kilogram Lottery: In Indian Boxing, a Notification Decides a Career, Not an OpponentOn the evening of 24 November 2026, inside Delhi's Indira Gandhi Indoor...
The LA28 window: India's boxing fate is being decided in recognition files and selection trials, not in the ringAt 6:40 in the morning, the second hall at the national camp in Patiala was...
A Title at 48kg, an Olympic Door at 50kg: The Part of Indian Women's Boxing the Scoreboard Never ShowsOn the evening of 26 March 2026, in the corridor that runs from the warm-up...
After Paris, Indian Boxing: The Quota Map, Redrawn Weight Classes, and the Names Missing From the Next ListOn the night of August 1, 2026, the loudest sound in the mixed zone under the...
Indian Boxing's Real Selection Trial Is Written on an Appointment LetterIn November 2026 I was sitting in the KD Jadhav Hall in Delhi, watching Mary...
Six Boxers and One Ignored Column: The Real Selection Sheet of Indian BoxingIn the summer of 2026, in Mumbai, I built a spreadsheet. Six franchises of th...
Six Quotas, No Medal: India's Boxing Ledger Is Written in Weight ClassesJune 5, 2026, Bangkok. Jaismine Lamboria's hand went up in the 57kg semifinal...
Four 1-4 Cards, Six Entries, One Empty Hall: The Unfinished Ledger of Indian BoxingFour bout sheets from Paris sit on my desk in the same order. Preeti Pawar,...
India's Real Boxing Selection Trial Is Held in a Railways OfficeIn November 2026 I sat in Delhi's KD Jadhav Hall for a bout I had not come to...
The Card Changed, the Judges Didn't: Whose Paperwork Testifies in Boxing's New GovernanceIn 2026 I was boxing at 63.5kg out of Rotunda ABC in Kirkdale, and I was in t...
Change the Weight Class, Change the Career: The Unwritten Selection Arithmetic of Indian BoxingMarch 2026, Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. Nikhat Zareen walks into...
Two Files, One NOC: Indian Boxing’s Real Transfer WindowA register lay open in the back room of the Saroornagar Indoor Stadium. It wa...
Indian Boxing's Real Scorecard Isn't With the Judges — It's in the Weight ClassesNorth Paris Arena, August 2026. Men's 71kg quarterfinal, Nishant Dev against...
The Scale Moved, the Spotlight Didn't: Women's Boxing's New Weight Map and the Unfinished Qualification BuildingThe tension outside the weigh-in room at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in...
Paris Zero, World Boxing's Rankings, and the Indian Domestic Calendar Nobody PrintedLast week I opened World Boxing's ranking page for the 71kg category three...
Six Boxers, Zero Medals: Calling Paris a Talent Drought Is Indian Boxing's Oldest Alibi3 August 2026, North Paris Arena. In the 71kg quarterfinal, Nishant Dev did...
The Kilogram Lottery: In Indian Boxing, a Notification Decides a Career, Not an OpponentOn the evening of 24 November 2026, inside Delhi's Indira Gandhi Indoor...
The LA28 window: India's boxing fate is being decided in recognition files and selection trials, not in the ringAt 6:40 in the morning, the second hall at the national camp in Patiala was...
A Title at 48kg, an Olympic Door at 50kg: The Part of Indian Women's Boxing the Scoreboard Never ShowsOn the evening of 26 March 2026, in the corridor that runs from the warm-up...