Boxing
The Orphaned 56kg: Hamburg's Bronze and the Olympic Door That Had Already Shut
Six Quotas, Three Routes, One Zero: Auditing Indian Boxing's Ledger
Six Quotas, Zero Medals: The Qualifying Machinery Behind Indian Boxing's Paris Blank
The 3-2 Scoreline Is the Least Interesting Number on the Card
Nine to Six, One to Zero: India's Boxing Defeat Is Recorded in the Calendar
Six Quotas, Zero Medals: The Qualifying Machinery Behind Indian Boxing's Paris BlankAt the North Paris Arena in the first week of August, standing at the warm-up...
The 3-2 Scoreline Is the Least Interesting Number on the CardTokyo, 29 July 2026. In a 51kg round of 16, Mary Kom and Colombia's Ingrit...
The Orphaned 56kg: Hamburg's Bronze and the Olympic Door That Had Already ShutHamburg, August 2026. The men's 56kg medal ceremony was over and my tag sheet...
Nine to Six, One to Zero: India's Boxing Defeat Is Recorded in the CalendarDuring Paris 2026's quarterfinal week at the North Arena, two Indian boxers...
The Services Payroll and Weight-Class Arithmetic: Indian Boxing's Real Transfer MarketThe January 2026 trial entry list was a plain spreadsheet — forty-eight names...
Six Quotas, Three Routes, One Zero: Auditing Indian Boxing's LedgerOn the last day of the World Qualification Tournament in Bangkok, 2 June 2026...
The Arithmetic of Kilograms: Selection Trials, Weight Categories and the Real Story of India's Boxing Qualification MachineA sheet of paper taped to a wall at the national camp in Patiala says more th...
The Arithmetic of the Final Thirty Seconds: Where Indian Boxing's Split Decisions Are Actually SettledHyderabad, 1:40 am, the same clip for the seventeenth time. The 57kg final of...
Zero Medals in Paris: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Isn't in the Ring, It's in the Weight-Class MapEvery national trial weigh-in now has one column written in decimals — 63.5...
An Empty Hall and a Full File: The Six-and-Six Arithmetic That Decided India's Boxing Season Before the RingThe first queue at the SAI NIS campus in Patiala forms at six in the morning,...
51kg Vanishes, 63.5kg Appears: The Ledger Indian Boxing Opens Before Any MedalOn the morning of 12 January 2026, the first weigh-in of the selection trial...
Paris Zero, Patiala Ledger: A Payroll Audit of Indian BoxingOn the night of 3 August 2026 I was watching the North Paris Arena feed from ...
Four World Titles, Zero Olympic Medals: Indian Boxing's Real Question Is the Weight-Class GridIn the 71kg quarterfinal in Paris, Nishant Dev had three rounds and five...
The Defeat Was Written on the Weigh-In Slip: How India's Paris 2026 Boxing Zero Was Filed Months Earlier in the Camp CalendarThe 50kg pre-quarterfinal at the North Paris Arena ended last August with Wu...
The Weight-Class Transfer Window: Indian Boxing's Uncovered Migration Before LA28Second week of September 2026, M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool. World Boxing's firs...
Six Boxers, Zero Medals, 248 Quotas: The LA28 Arithmetic That Decides Which Divisions India Can Still EnterThe Paris boxing entry list carried 248 names spread across 13 weight classes...