Boxing
Whose Quota, Whose Posting: The Real Qualification Route in Indian Boxing
The Weight on the Entry Form That Has No Olympic Door
The 48kg Rope: In Indian Boxing, the Injury Is Filed Before It Is Fought
Paris Bronze, Patiala Payroll: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is in the Appointment Letter, Not the Ring
Whose Quota, Whose Posting: The Real Qualification Route in Indian BoxingAt the SAI centre in Patiala the first bell rings at six. In the third corner...
Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is Not in the Ring. It Is in the Weight List and the Payroll.Nishant Dev stood three rounds against Marco Verde in the 71kg quarterfinal a...
The Patiala Pay Slip: Indian Boxing's Real Budget Sits in Posting Orders, Not Medal TablesAt the National Institute of Sports in Patiala, the loudest document at the...
The Weight on the Entry Form That Has No Olympic DoorThe start list pasted on the wall of the NIS hall in Patiala had six names in...
Paris Zero, LA28 Map: India's Next Boxing Cycle Begins in the Corridors, Not on the Count SheetParis 2026 ended with India's six boxers returning without a medal. Nishant...
Boxing's Real Transfer Window: Where Federations Move, Not Fighters1 August 2026. North Paris Arena, ring one. Nikhat Zareen's scorecard carried...
The Weight Class That Changed on the Patiala Scale: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is With the CalendarSix forty in the morning. The lock on the gym at NIS Patiala turns over, and...
The Empty Hall Testifies: Indian Boxing's Real Transfer Window Opens in a Railways OfficeI had come to Delhi's Talkatora indoor hall for the third time that morning,...
The Shoulder Ledger: In Indian Boxing, Injuries Are Built by the Calendar, Not the RingTokyo Olympics, 2026. Vikas Krishan walked into his welterweight opener and...
Four Golds, Six Quotas, Zero Medals: The Indian Boxing Ledger Nobody ReconcilesOn the night of August 6, 2026, from my flat in Pune, I watched Nishant Dev...
The 48kg Rope: In Indian Boxing, the Injury Is Filed Before It Is FoughtNovember 2026, Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, New Delhi. Four hours before the...
Paris Zero Was a Qualification Bill, Not a Talent Crash — and LA28 Is About to Serve the Second InstallmentThe moment Nishant Dev's men's 71kg quarterfinal slipped away 1-4 at the Nort...
Paris Bronze, Patiala Payroll: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is in the Appointment Letter, Not the RingThe evening the women's 75kg medals were decided at Roland-Garros, I was in t...