Visit a members’ club in Jaipur that celebrates tradition with a little flair.
Ever since Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II, who once ruled Jaipur under the British Raj, led India to victory at the Polo World Cup in 1957, the city’s passion for the sport has flourished. And it’s a love affair encapsulated today by Polo Palladio, a members’ clubhouse beneath the stands of the Rajasthan Polo Club.
On match days, the pitch welcomes the whole city. Members take to the stands where turbaned waiters serve sharp cocktails and crunchy chaat, while the public claims the grass below. “What I love about Polo Palladio is that you never know who you might meet and what you might discuss,” says Miolini. Old Jaipur families sit alongside lawyers, professors, artists and jewellers. “No one is guarded.”
After the match, the garden opens for high tea. Chicken majnoon (a spiced pomegranate roast with saffron-infused rice and fiery prawns) is on the menu – a nod to the sport’s Persian origins. The crowd, often dressed in saris and diamonds or sporting safari jackets and pipes, has been known to have pitch-side parties that last into the early hours. “Very few spaces in Jaipur feel this way,” says Miolini.
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