Meghdoot - the cloud messanger!

 “O' mighty cloud, capable of carrying immense quantities of water,

O' noble relative of Pushkara,  please take a message to my wife!"

In meghdoot, which is a poem by Kalidas, there is a Yaksha, a demigod, who beseeches a cloud to take his love message to his beloved across the country, flying from one mountain to the other,  through the vast area of the whole country.  

This Yaksha had been separated from his wife for more than a year, and since he couldn't see her, and she, him, he just wanted to send her his love and to bring a smile to her dry lips, to ease her pain of separation. 

How important is this message of love, and what wonders this can do to someone suffering the pangs of separation and loneliness. Just getting a message, a letter, a phone call, or a text, from their beloved, how happy does it make them.

How easy it is these days, sending a love message, as it only requires the will of the sender, and the rest is easy, or at least so much easier. 

There was a time, as in this 4th or 5th century BC poem, sending a love message was not that easy.

From pigeons to pitchers, lovers have used a variety of means of sending a message to their beloved.

A poem, a cloud, and a bleeding heart.

In many Asian cultures, love is usually expressed through poems. These poems were then recited to natural elements by the lovestruck lovers. 

And then came the handwritten letter, but now, 

a letter, what a thing of the past!

A phone call. 

A text through the cloud,

A love heart! 

A full circle!