My daughter sent me a photograph from Pune last week—a young Manipuri boy doing roadwork before dawn near her hostel, his sparring gloves tucked into a plastic bag. Hevem, that is what we used to do with our old exam papers, folding them into envelopes to save a rupee. The SAI hostels give a cot and a meal, but these boxers learn the real discipline from the potholes they run around. The markets and the gyms in Imphal have produced more champions than any committee could, because hunger teaches faster than a syllabus.
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