Poetry of India 5/100: Kalidasa’s Meghaduta and the Message Carried by a Cloud
Part 5 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Kalidasa’s classical Sanskrit poem Meghaduta, often translated as “The Cloud Messenger,” begins with separation. An exiled yaksha, a celestial being, asks a passing cloud to carry a message to his distant beloved. The premise is simple, but it allows the poet to transform a journey across India into a meditation on memo…
