About the Book : The Abyss
Pothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful and God-fearing man about town he
has a loyal wife, three daughters and ample money to pay for their dowries.
However, it is an open secret that his success is fuelled by a tawdry yet deeply
profitable trade for he owns a group of physically deformed beggars and places
them outside various temples to make money for him. The beggars are mere 'items
to Pandaram, hardly human, to be bought and sold like cattle. But when the novel
descends right into their world the world of the 'abyss and places the reader