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Five months since the wrestlers started their protest and 20 months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi knowing about the sexual abuse, we are nowhere close to a solution.

The framework reads less like an agreement between partners and more like a probation order written by the stronger side.
The year began with the wrestlers’ tears of anger and frustration as they protested institutional inaction against the then WFI president, and it ended with their tears of defeat and despair as the system answered their year-long protests with an upraised middle finger.
At the Asiads, the Indian wrestling team will march into the stadium stateless and compete as neutrals, because one man—the prime accused in multiple cases of sexual abuse—has been jockeying to maintain his control over the WFI.