BETEL, BANYAN, BASIL & BAMBOO

A little space on the World Wide Web which allows me to share my interest in books, folklore, sacred plants and flowers, legendary creatures, with the occasional foray into pop culture.

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Asian Anthology New Writing Vol 1 Edited by Ivy Ngeow

Asian Anthology - Twenty-four short stories edited by the multitasking and multitalented, Ivy Ngeow . Published by Leopard Print Publishing...

Friday, September 23, 2022

A Writer's Journey Through Folklore

For those of you who missed my talk, I would like to share with you some of the slides taken from my presentation (the first few slides wer...

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

IBBY 38th International Congress at Putrajaya, Malaysia

IBBY 2022 I had the privilege of being invited as a guest Plenary Speaker at the IBBY 38th International Congress at Putrajaya yesterday on...

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Reconstructing the Tale of The Princess of Mount Ledang

The story of the Princess of Mount Ledang holds an enduring fascination among Malaysian writers and there have been a number of retellings a...

Friday, November 27, 2020

Bright Landscapes by Daphne Lee - A Commentary

(This is a commentary and not a review because I'm analysing the stories as a writer as well as a reader.) Bright Landscapes by Daphn...

Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Blood Prince of Langkasuka - Background and Synopsis

I'm super excited to announce the publication of my 10th book The Blood Prince of Langkasuka, by Penguin RandomHouse SEA! This ...

Friday, April 17, 2020

The Blood Prince of Langkasuka

A manuscript I started researching while in Zagreb, Croatia in 2013 may have found a home at last. Huge sigh of relief after a writing jour...

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Meet Tutu Dutta

tutudutta: Tutu Dutta is the collector and raconteur of tales. She was born in Churachandpur in India. As a toddler, she left the green hills and farmlands for Calcutta and from there to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which was a quiet little town then. She has also lived in Kuching, Sarawak as a child. As an undergraduate at Universiti Putra Malaysia, she won a scholarship from Japan Airlines to spend a summer in Japan, which was a life-changing experience. As a post-graduate student at the University of Malaya, she also had a chance to study in France for a year. She is an International Nomad who has lived in Singapore (where her daughter was born), Lagos, New York, Havana and Zagreb. While in New York, her passion for folklore and children's literature inspired her to research and write some of the stories in "Twelve Treasures of the East", which she co-authored with Lucy Bedoya-Maire, illustrated by James Konatich. She has since had eight more books published, five of which are collections of Asian folktales, including, Timeless Tales of Malaysia, in 2009 and Nights of the Dark Moon in 2017. Phoenix Song, her first picture book (illustrated by Martina Peluso) was published in 2015.

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