Boxing
Six Boxers in Paris, Zero Medals: Indian Boxing's Real Head Office Isn't in Patiala, It's on the Railways and Services Payroll
Redrawn Kilograms, Empty Camp: The Ledger Indian Boxing's Medal Table Never Shows
The Real Fight Is the Selection Trial: Patiala's Long Silence After Mary Kom
The Balewadi Draw Sheet: Indian Boxing's Real Problem Is Weight-Class Distribution, Not Depth
Seventy-One Entries, Two That Mattered: Indian Boxing's Ledger and the Los Angeles Count
The Register Changed, the Payroll Didn't: Inside Indian Boxing's New Entry List
Seventy-One Entries, Two That Mattered: Indian Boxing's Ledger and the Los Angeles CountThe Paris entry sheet is still in a separate folder on my laptop. Six rows —...
Six Boxers in Paris, Zero Medals: Indian Boxing's Real Head Office Isn't in Patiala, It's on the Railways and Services PayrollThe scorecard came up on the screen seconds after the 71kg quarterfinal ended...
The Register Changed, the Payroll Didn't: Inside Indian Boxing's New Entry ListSeventy-one entries, and only two of them ever mattered. In October 2026 I...
Four Golds and an Empty Calendar: Three Years Inside India's Women's BoxingThe fourth gold came late on the final weekend of March 2026, and the KD Jadh...
The Thirty-Minute Window: Why Boxing Announces Verdicts It Has No Mechanism to ReviewThe Thirty-Minute Window: Why Boxing Announces Verdicts It Has No Mechanism t...
Billions in Broadcast Rights, Yet the Boxer Awaits a Railway Recruitment Letter — The Ledger of Indian BoxingAugust 2026, Paris. The 75kg quarterfinal at the North Paris Arena had barely...
96 Names, 34 Verified Bouts: Indian Boxing's Contract Market Still Runs on an Empty RegisterTwo files lie open on my desk in Ahmedabad. The first is a 96-name list from...
Indian Boxing's Real Fight Is Not in the Ring — It's in the Entry DeadlinesAt the national camp in Patiala that afternoon, a coach set down my tea and...
Redrawn Kilograms, Empty Camp: The Ledger Indian Boxing's Medal Table Never ShowsIn the last days of July 2026, at the North Paris Arena, Lovlina Borgohain lo...
India's Paris 2026 Boxing Blank: The Fault Was in the Qualification Calendar, Not the TalentNorth Paris Arena, Villepinte. The afternoon of 4 August 2026. The scoreboard...
The Real Fight Is the Selection Trial: Patiala's Long Silence After Mary KomIn the gymnasium of the National Coaching Centre in Patiala, during the secon...
The Balewadi Draw Sheet: Indian Boxing's Real Problem Is Weight-Class Distribution, Not DepthIn March 2026 the doors at the Balewadi complex were shut to spectators....
Paris 2026's Zero and the Arithmetic of Weight Classes: Indian Boxing's Real LedgerAugust 2026, Paris. Outside the ring at Roland Garros the scoreboard blinked...