About The Book: TEARS OF THE GANGES is a philosophical novel highlighting the Veda, Vedanta, and Buddhist outlooks in between the lines. Two young men from Kerala, Unni, from Thrissur and Vasu, from Shoranur, meet in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges. Unni has come in search of his friend Appu, and Vasu is in the city to perform the last rites for his mother. Another young man, named Shankar, who is a drug addict, joins them...