Poetry in Pink
Spread over a 1300 acre sprawling campus and peopled with elegant old buildings is the Osmania University in Hyderabad. The seventh oldest university in the country was brought into existence by the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918.
This beautifully green campus is so vast that its roads have long come to become regular thoroughfares in the city. So much so that, one does not even know just how many buildings are scattered around here and does not even spare more than a glance. That too when the names on the buildings get you thinking as to all the obscure possible disciplines of formal education and research available!
So it wasn't till I actually stood under the Arts College Building one Sunday morning after I had decided to photograph it, did I realise just how smartly and tastefully this graceful old building has been designed.
Born from a farman (Royal Charter) by Nawab Osman Ali Khan, this university's buildings were planned by Mr. Jasper, a Belgian architect, who was "found" by an expert panel of architects and engineers who had toured through Europe, America, Japan, Egypt and Turkey in the quest.
It is of little surprise then that the centre piece of this spread, the Arts College is but Poetry in Pink.
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This Heritage Building of Pink Granite, which took 5 years to construct, was officially inaugurated in 1939.
