Boxing
Forty Credentials, Six Reporters: Indian Boxing Is Measured in Empty Seats, Not Quotas
Someone Struck a Line Through the Weight Table: LA28's New Kilogram List and the Fight Indian Boxing Isn't Reporting
From Patiala's Trial Room to the Olympics: Indian Boxing's Verdict Is Written in Weight-Class Churn, Not in the Ring
The 51kg Trial Sheet: Where Weigh-In, Payroll and Olympic Divisions Are Decided on the Same Piece of Paper
Forty Credentials, Six Reporters: Indian Boxing Is Measured in Empty Seats, Not QuotasHook — The Night I Counted Lanyards At first glance, this column is not about...
Someone Struck a Line Through the Weight Table: LA28's New Kilogram List and the Fight Indian Boxing Isn't ReportingThe weight chart on the wall of the national camp in Patiala changes every...
From Patiala's Trial Room to the Olympics: Indian Boxing's Verdict Is Written in Weight-Class Churn, Not in the RingIt was the second day of selection trials at the National Institute of Sports...
The 51kg Trial Sheet: Where Weigh-In, Payroll and Olympic Divisions Are Decided on the Same Piece of PaperSeven-ten in the morning. The queue in front of the scale at the national cam...
The 51kg Cut: Why Nine Names Vanished From the Junior Trial ListThe first page of a trial list is never a scorecard. It is a payroll, and...
Ninety Minutes After the Podium: Four Signals in the Patiala Logbook That Explain Paris' Zero MedalsThe trophy comes down at ten. The story starts at eleven-forty. After Nikhat...
The Patch Notes Told the Story: Indian Boxing Didn't Lose Talent, It Lost a Compatible ClientWhat stayed with me from the last week of the Paris 2026 boxing tournament at...
The Paris Zero: Six Entries, Four Round-of-16 Exits, and the Ledger Nobody KeepsThe Paris bout sheet is still taped to the corner of my desk in London. Nikha...
The New Weight-Class Sheet and Indian Boxing's Ledger: Quota on Paper, Signatures Missing from the RecordOn a table inside the national camp at Patiala, in the last week of January...