ABSTRACT
The Poetry Society Hyderabad Centre held its 757th meeting in January 2014. Originating as a Zenana Circle/Branch in November 1925 for ladies to listen to and appreciate poetry, it expanded into an Open Centre in 1929 and became the Poetry Society Hyderabad Centre in 1937, with Nawab Sir Nizamat Jung as the first President and Mrs. Rosenthal the Secretary. A presentation, 'Virtual Verse: Poetry and the Internet' was held at the beginning of the new millennium. The Reading Circle is confined to members of the PS and meets informally around a stated theme with members reading/reciting poems selected by them, and often their own verses. Given Hyderabad's proven capacity to acquire newer layers of culture without losing the earlier ones, Poetry Society Hyderabad Centre remains optimistic of the rose continuing to bloom, giving a positive perspective to the lines by Sarojini Naidu, Hyderabad's iconic poet: Time is like the wind that blows the future like a folded rose.
