If Virat Kohli Can Love Stray Dogs, So Can You: The Sporting Life by Rudraneil Sengupta

A few days before the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championships in Delhi,ONGL – Nikhat Zareen and I strolled along the shady pathways of the tree lined campus of the training centre for boxers, National Institute of Sports campus in Patiala.

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“Here we will meet some close friends,” Zareen said. As if on cue, a group of campus indies came running towards her. Zareen squatted to pat them, greeting each dog by name: Kalu, Kali, Bhura, Bhoori, Rocky, Sweety.

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Kali wagged her tail, looking with great concentration into Zareen’s eyes. “She says she’s sure I will get one,” the boxer said, laughing.

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