The group is working to promote women's polo and the government of Manipur now sponsors a women's polo tournament every year. FMTNews FMTLifestyle
Player Shanglenmayum Sangeet feeds Manipuri ponies at the Thangmeiband Polo Ground in Imphal, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur.
“If men can play polo why can’t we do it too?” Laishram, a member of the Linthoingambi Kangjei Lup Polo Club, told AFP. Even so, polo – which resembles horseback field hockey, and whose Manipuri version, “Sagol Kangjei”, is played with riders on indigenous ponies – is usually viewed as a male-only sport in the state.
Fearing their beloved sport and ponies would die out, Singh and others banded together to revive the game by attracting new players.“We are working to promote women’s polo and the government of Manipur now sponsors a women’s polo tournament every year.”The involvement of female players was intertwined with the survival of the ponies, which experts feared were on the brink of extinction.
“Sometimes when we can’t save them they die. It’s very sad, we cry,” said Khundongbam Habe, who with her sister cares for more than 40 ponies.
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