Boxing
Twelve Weight Classes and One Empty Hall: The Arithmetic of Waiting in Indian Boxing
Nine to Six: The LA 2028 Weight-Class Sheet, the Nitu–Nikhat Collision and Indian Boxing's Locked Door
From Nine to Six: An Audit of Indian Boxing's Quota Ledger
Three Kilograms, Twenty-Three Names, Three Slots: Inside the Weigh-In Corridor Where Indian Boxing's Real Fight Happens
Three Kilograms, Twenty-Three Names, Three Slots: Inside the Weigh-In Corridor Where Indian Boxing's Real Fight HappensTwenty-three names were pinned outside the weigh-in room and the slots were...
Twelve Weight Classes and One Empty Hall: The Arithmetic of Waiting in Indian BoxingThe weight-category chart on the wall of the SAI NIS hall in Patiala gets...
India's Boxers Keep Winning Titles in Weight Classes the Olympic Programme Has Already DeletedAt the senior nationals last season I watched a men's lightweight final that...
The 49-Kilogram Question: Boxing's New Transfer Window and the Class That Quietly VanishedOn 26 February 2026 the International Olympic Committee granted provisional...
Paris's Zero Was Written in the Draw, Not in the FormThe Paris entry list carried six Indian names — Nikhat Zareen at 50kg, Preeti...
Six Boxers, Seven Quotas, Thirteen Weight Classes: The Ledger From Paris to Los AngelesNine August 2026, Court Two at Roland Garros. The last round of the men's 71k...
From 48kg to 75kg: The Weight-Class Ledger Behind India's Paris BlankIn the heat of May 2026, on the first floor of the Saroornagar Indoor Stadium...
Paris Zero and the Patiala Camp: Who Is Opening Indian Boxing's Medical File?In the third drawer of my Kolkata desk sits a file from 2026: 42 bout records...
Nine to Six: The LA 2028 Weight-Class Sheet, the Nitu–Nikhat Collision and Indian Boxing's Locked DoorThe entry list from the national camp in Patiala reached me this year in two...
From Nine to Six: An Audit of Indian Boxing's Quota LedgerOn 24 May 2026, the entry list pasted on the wall of Bangkok's Indra Square...
From Nine to Six to Zero: Indian Boxing's Ledger Is Settled by Payroll, Not by Weight ClassesNine names landed in Amman, and only one of them was the favourite. In March...
Twelve Weight Classes and One Empty Hall: The Arithmetic of Waiting in Indian BoxingThe weight-category chart on the wall of the SAI NIS hall in Patiala gets...
India's Boxers Keep Winning Titles in Weight Classes the Olympic Programme Has Already DeletedAt the senior nationals last season I watched a men's lightweight final that...
The 49-Kilogram Question: Boxing's New Transfer Window and the Class That Quietly VanishedOn 26 February 2026 the International Olympic Committee granted provisional...
Paris's Zero Was Written in the Draw, Not in the FormThe Paris entry list carried six Indian names — Nikhat Zareen at 50kg, Preeti...
Six Boxers, Seven Quotas, Thirteen Weight Classes: The Ledger From Paris to Los AngelesNine August 2026, Court Two at Roland Garros. The last round of the men's 71k...
From 48kg to 75kg: The Weight-Class Ledger Behind India's Paris BlankIn the heat of May 2026, on the first floor of the Saroornagar Indoor Stadium...
Paris Zero and the Patiala Camp: Who Is Opening Indian Boxing's Medical File?In the third drawer of my Kolkata desk sits a file from 2026: 42 bout records...
Nine to Six: The LA 2028 Weight-Class Sheet, the Nitu–Nikhat Collision and Indian Boxing's Locked DoorThe entry list from the national camp in Patiala reached me this year in two...
From Nine to Six: An Audit of Indian Boxing's Quota LedgerOn 24 May 2026, the entry list pasted on the wall of Bangkok's Indra Square...
From Nine to Six to Zero: Indian Boxing's Ledger Is Settled by Payroll, Not by Weight ClassesNine names landed in Amman, and only one of them was the favourite. In March...