Boxing
The Medical Ledger Behind Zero Medals: Auditing Indian Boxing's Clearance File
Paris 2026: Six Boxers, Zero Medals — and Seven of Thirteen Weight Classes Where India Had Nobody
The Patiala Ledger and the Los Angeles Invoice: Auditing Four Years of Indian Boxing
The Blank Page, the Locked Gate, and the Story That Never Got Written
The Blank Page, the Locked Gate, and the Story That Never Got WrittenDuring the final week of November 2026, at the national boxing championships,...
The Medical Ledger Behind Zero Medals: Auditing Indian Boxing's Clearance FileMedical suspension: 30 days. That single line on a bout sheet weighs more tha...
Jobs, Entry Lists and Kilograms: The Real Quota Map of Indian BoxingThe last Indian boxer to walk out of the North Paris Arena in August 2026 did...
An Empty Hall in Patiala, a Filled Form in LausanneAn Empty Hall in Patiala, a Filled Form in Lausanne Hamburg, August 2026. The...
Mahavir Singh Phogat: India's New Boxing Hope Set to Make History in Pakistani RingMahavir Singh Phogat: India’s New Boxing Hope Set to Make History in Pakistan...
The Weigh-In Room in Patiala: Where Indian Boxing's Real Paperwork Gets Written, Off-CameraThe 6 a.m. queue at the national boxing camp in Patiala is the sport's most...
The Bout That Turned at Frame 14: Judge Cards and Camera Angles in Mary Kom's Tokyo LossAt 1:47 of round three, Ingrit Valencia threw a left hook that live commentar...
Paris 2026: Six Boxers, Zero Medals — and Seven of Thirteen Weight Classes Where India Had NobodyHook 4 August 2026, North Paris Arena. Lovlina Borgohain lost her 75kg...
Nine Quotas, Six Boxers, Zero Medals: The Real Arithmetic of Indian BoxingAt North Paris Arena I was sitting in seat B-14, close enough to the ring to...
The Ledger Outside the Ring: From the Patiala Camp to the IBA-IOC Tug-of-War, Where Boxing's Real Arena LiesIn March 2026, when Melbourne went into lockdown and the SAI NIS camp at...
Three Medals, Six Boxers, One Payroll: The Second Ledger of Indian BoxingOn the first evening of August 2026, at the North Paris Arena, Nikhat Zareen...
The Patiala Ledger and the Los Angeles Invoice: Auditing Four Years of Indian BoxingMay 2026, Bangkok. At the second world qualification tournament, Jaismine...
Auditing Indian Boxing After Paris: Count the Quotas, the Weight Classes and the Trials Before the MedalsI begin with the autopsy, because the verdict usually hides the incentives....
The Paris Ledger: Six Boxers, Zero Medals, and the One Sum Nobody Added UpNishant Dev's 71kg quarterfinal ended with a 1-4 on the board — four of five...
Boxing Is Back in LA28: For India, the Real Bill Is the Cost of a Ranked BoutOn 20 March 2026, in Costa Navarino, the IOC Session voted boxing onto the LA...
Boxing's Real Transfer Window Runs in Kilograms, Not in the RingOutside the weigh-in room at the SAI National Institute of Sports in Patiala...