With Preeti Pawar’s win at the recent Asian Boxing Championships in Ulaanbaatar, India’s new boxing vanguard has finally come of age. In the hard geometry of the boxing ring, there is little room for flourish. Yet for 22-year-old Preeti Pawar, each bout seems to carry the suggestion of a canvas. At the in Ulaanbaatar, the youthful Preeti’s unanimous 5–0 dismantling of Huang Hsiao-wen, a three-time world champion and Olympic medallist, was a statement that Indian women’s boxin