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The Writers Bar at the Raffles Jaipur. The Jaipur Sling is flavoured with a dash of Chandrahaas liqueur.
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It is an unusually wet autumn in the desert. As we drive into Jaipur, the Pink City now turned green, it is an ideal rainy day to stay ensconced inside a palace—albeit a modern one—and read a tome or two about glories gone by.
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At the Writers Bar tucked inside the new Raffles hotel that has just opened in the city, designed like a “modern maharani’s” palace, the setting is just right for a day of leisure. Plush bound classics and coffee table books on princely India compete for attention with a showpiece of a bar, and a winding, old-fashioned staircase that takes you up to a tasteful wine library.
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