Sara's Message

A messenger of love for a runaway boy turns out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Sara the director of an orphanage sends a young man her trusted lieutenant to locate and bring back a runaway boy accused of indecent behaviour. The story set in Sweden and in India is narrated in the format of the fourth century work Meghaduta(The Cloud Messenger) of the Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and describes the landscape and the history of the places through which the messenger travels. The messenger purportedly a saviour turns jealous and begins to develop hostile intentions towards the run-away. But he does not realize that when he documents the history of Sara’s adopted family – with skeletons in the cupboard - during the journey he is placing himself also in mortal danger. Shimmering now and then in the background of the tale is the effort of a language its poetry appearing as a dancer in golden anklets to get liberated from domination by a more powerful language.