Boxing
Paris 2026's Zero: Indian Boxing's Error Was Logged in the Qualification Route, Not the Ring
The LA28 Quota Is Being Decided in Files, Not in the Ring
From 50kg to 75kg: In Indian Boxing the Divisions Keep Changing, the Boxers Don't
Weight-Class Redraws and Indian Boxing: From Paris Zero to the LA 2028 Pathway
The Empty Calendar After the Olympics: Who Pays for India's Domestic Boxing SeasonBhiwani, five in the morning The current comes on at five. The first hand...
Six Names on the Paris Entry List, and Two Weight Classes Left EmptyThe Paris Olympics boxing tournament carried thirteen weight classes — seven...
The Patiala Bout Sheet: Indian Boxing's Real Scorecard Is Filed in a DrawerThe 57kg quarterfinal bout sheet from last month's inter-unit trials at the S...
Paris 2026's Zero: Indian Boxing's Error Was Logged in the Qualification Route, Not the RingPatch Notes for the Ring — Paris's zero is not the verdict of a bout, it is t...
Five Bouts, Eight Days, One Empty Column: The Medical Ledger of Indian BoxingNovember 24, 2026, New Delhi. The 48kg final had barely ended at the Indira...
The LA28 Quota Is Being Decided in Files, Not in the RingMarch 2026, the Indira Gandhi Arena in Delhi. The final weekend of the IBA...
From 50kg to 75kg: In Indian Boxing the Divisions Keep Changing, the Boxers Don'tThe corridor smelled like bleach, and nobody was talking. Weigh-in had opened...
The Loss Is Recorded on the Bulletin, Not the ScorecardIndia's Paris 2026 boxing squad had six boxers — Nikhat Zareen at 50kg, Amit...
India's Real Boxing Defeat Is Recorded on a Payroll, Not in a RingI was watching Nishant Dev's feet from the upper gallery of the North Paris...
The LA28 Road Was Decided on Paper: Weight-Class Politics, the Jobs Economy and a Missing Medal in Indian BoxingOn an August 2026 afternoon an entry list arrived from Patiala. Sixty names,...
Six Quotas, Eleven Days: Where Indian Boxing's Real Trial Is Actually Being FoughtI begin with the autopsy, because the verdict usually hides the incentives. 2...
Weight-Class Redraws and Indian Boxing: From Paris Zero to the LA 2028 PathwayIn November 2026, at the Women's World Championships in New Delhi, I...
Paris Zero Was Weight-Class Arithmetic, Not a Talent Collapse — And the Sum Was Visible Eighteen Months EarlyIn the first days of August 2026, Nishant Dev lost his 71kg quarter-final at...
Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window: 50 Kilograms, the SAI Payroll and World Boxing's OfficeNikhat Zareen's Paris scorecard reads 0-5: August 2026, 50 kilograms, round o...
From a Patiala Payroll to an LA28 Quota: The Ledger of Indian Boxing That Never Counts the MedalsIn October 2026 my chair in the press tribune at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium...
Patiala's Camp Calendar, the New Weight Queue and Indian Boxing's Empty Hall After ParisThe weigh-in queue forms before six in the morning. On the first floor of NIS...
Six Names on the Paris Entry List, and Two Weight Classes Left EmptyThe Paris Olympics boxing tournament carried thirteen weight classes — seven...
The Patiala Bout Sheet: Indian Boxing's Real Scorecard Is Filed in a DrawerThe 57kg quarterfinal bout sheet from last month's inter-unit trials at the S...
Paris 2026's Zero: Indian Boxing's Error Was Logged in the Qualification Route, Not the RingPatch Notes for the Ring — Paris's zero is not the verdict of a bout, it is t...
Five Bouts, Eight Days, One Empty Column: The Medical Ledger of Indian BoxingNovember 24, 2026, New Delhi. The 48kg final had barely ended at the Indira...
The LA28 Quota Is Being Decided in Files, Not in the RingMarch 2026, the Indira Gandhi Arena in Delhi. The final weekend of the IBA...
From 50kg to 75kg: In Indian Boxing the Divisions Keep Changing, the Boxers Don'tThe corridor smelled like bleach, and nobody was talking. Weigh-in had opened...
The Loss Is Recorded on the Bulletin, Not the ScorecardIndia's Paris 2026 boxing squad had six boxers — Nikhat Zareen at 50kg, Amit...
India's Real Boxing Defeat Is Recorded on a Payroll, Not in a RingI was watching Nishant Dev's feet from the upper gallery of the North Paris...
The LA28 Road Was Decided on Paper: Weight-Class Politics, the Jobs Economy and a Missing Medal in Indian BoxingOn an August 2026 afternoon an entry list arrived from Patiala. Sixty names,...
Six Quotas, Eleven Days: Where Indian Boxing's Real Trial Is Actually Being FoughtI begin with the autopsy, because the verdict usually hides the incentives. 2...
Weight-Class Redraws and Indian Boxing: From Paris Zero to the LA 2028 PathwayIn November 2026, at the Women's World Championships in New Delhi, I...
Paris Zero Was Weight-Class Arithmetic, Not a Talent Collapse — And the Sum Was Visible Eighteen Months EarlyIn the first days of August 2026, Nishant Dev lost his 71kg quarter-final at...
Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window: 50 Kilograms, the SAI Payroll and World Boxing's OfficeNikhat Zareen's Paris scorecard reads 0-5: August 2026, 50 kilograms, round o...
From a Patiala Payroll to an LA28 Quota: The Ledger of Indian Boxing That Never Counts the MedalsIn October 2026 my chair in the press tribune at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium...
Patiala's Camp Calendar, the New Weight Queue and Indian Boxing's Empty Hall After ParisThe weigh-in queue forms before six in the morning. On the first floor of NIS...