Boxing
The New World of 50kg: Nikhat Zareen and the Weight Class That Vanished in a Patch
The Arithmetic of Two Hundred: Indian Boxing's Great Subtraction Before Los Angeles
Six Quotas, Two Quarterfinals, Zero Medals: The Third Column Nobody Reconciled in the Paris Bout Sheet
From Busto Arsizio to Los Angeles: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is the Calendar, Not the Ring
The New World of 50kg: Nikhat Zareen and the Weight Class That Vanished in a PatchThe final ten seconds of the third round: Nikhat Zareen raised both gloves to...
The Arithmetic of Two Hundred: Indian Boxing's Great Subtraction Before Los AngelesThe Arithmetic of Two Hundred: Indian Boxing's Great Subtraction Before Los...
Six Quotas, Two Quarterfinals, Zero Medals: The Third Column Nobody Reconciled in the Paris Bout SheetNorth Paris Arena, Villepinte. 27 July 2026, the evening session. In my hand...
From Busto Arsizio to Los Angeles: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is the Calendar, Not the RingIn the first week of March 2026, names were going up on the scoreboard in a...
Lovlina's 1–4 and Parveen's Empty Column: Auditing Paris Scorecards on the Road to Los AngelesIn Paris, after the 75kg quarterfinal night ended, I had two things in front ...
Boxing's Transfer Window: Six Quotas, Four Weight-Class Moves, and the Door Nobody OpenedThe last night of June 2026. A newsroom in Mumbai, a stream of the World...
Weight Classes Change, the Calendar Doesn't: Indian Boxing's Real Deficit on the Road to LA28Hamburg, 2026. Three three-minute rounds at 56 kilograms ended, three judges'...
Who Wasn't in the Hall: A Patiala Morning, a Struck-Out Weight Line, and Indian Boxing's PayrollThe first thing I noticed was who wasn't there. Six-forty on a Patiala mornin...
The Names Not in the Register: Indian Boxing's Empty Corridor After ParisOn the third floor of the NIS hostel in Patiala, a laminated sheet stays tape...
The Scale Changed, the Date Didn'tThe sheet in the coach's bag has three columns and no headings. The first...
The Indian Boxing Audit: Zero Paris Medals and the Full Arithmetic of the Weight-Class MapThat night in August 2026 I spent in a Brooklyn gym with thirty other people,...
The Arithmetic of Two Hundred: Indian Boxing's Great Subtraction Before Los AngelesThe Arithmetic of Two Hundred: Indian Boxing's Great Subtraction Before Los...
Six Quotas, Two Quarterfinals, Zero Medals: The Third Column Nobody Reconciled in the Paris Bout SheetNorth Paris Arena, Villepinte. 27 July 2026, the evening session. In my hand...
From Busto Arsizio to Los Angeles: Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is the Calendar, Not the RingIn the first week of March 2026, names were going up on the scoreboard in a...
Lovlina's 1–4 and Parveen's Empty Column: Auditing Paris Scorecards on the Road to Los AngelesIn Paris, after the 75kg quarterfinal night ended, I had two things in front ...
Boxing's Transfer Window: Six Quotas, Four Weight-Class Moves, and the Door Nobody OpenedThe last night of June 2026. A newsroom in Mumbai, a stream of the World...
Weight Classes Change, the Calendar Doesn't: Indian Boxing's Real Deficit on the Road to LA28Hamburg, 2026. Three three-minute rounds at 56 kilograms ended, three judges'...
Who Wasn't in the Hall: A Patiala Morning, a Struck-Out Weight Line, and Indian Boxing's PayrollThe first thing I noticed was who wasn't there. Six-forty on a Patiala mornin...
The Names Not in the Register: Indian Boxing's Empty Corridor After ParisOn the third floor of the NIS hostel in Patiala, a laminated sheet stays tape...
The Scale Changed, the Date Didn'tThe sheet in the coach's bag has three columns and no headings. The first...
The Indian Boxing Audit: Zero Paris Medals and the Full Arithmetic of the Weight-Class MapThat night in August 2026 I spent in a Brooklyn gym with thirty other people,...