A ‘Si Tanggang’ with a cause

A labour of love: ‘The Inverted Banyan Tree’ was a love story to a community, Asher said.

An ‘exile’ writing about growing up in Malaya/Malaysia has lessons to teach us about diversity and acceptance. 

I LIKEN J.K. Asher, the author of The Inverted Banyan Tree and the way thither, to “Si Tanggang” – the character in the Malay moral fable who travelled the world only to come back years later, with little understanding of what happened to his place of birth.