Jesse Q. Sutanto: On Accidental Murder and Meddlesome Families
Author Jesse Q. Sutanto explains how she created the plot for her novel Dial A for Aunties and how she lets her characters dictate their story.
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Apr 26, 2021
Jesse Q. Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford and considers all three places her home. She has a master s from Oxford University, but she has yet to figure out how to say that without sounding obnoxious. Jesse has 42 first cousins and 30 aunties and uncles, many of whom live just down the road. When she s not writing, she s gaming with her husband (mostly FPS) or making a mess in the kitchen with her two daughters.
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Anamika has won the Sahitya Akademi award for the year 2020 for her poetry collection
Tokri mein Digant: Therigatha 2014. She is a celebrated feminist poet writing in Hindi. I use the word “feminist” deliberately, because Anamika’s corpus of literary works has given a powerful voice to the women’s cause.
Feminist studies across the globe have celebrated the emergence of women writers in the literary canon, which has actually changed the optics. When lived experiences are shared by women through their writings, it empowers them to rip apart the social, political, economic and familial structures which have always denied them the right of being equals and made them feel subjugated.
INTRODUCTION
During the many intense upheavals that occurred in British politics in 2016, accusations were levelled at two prominent female politicians: British newspaper the Independent reported the assertion made by a parliamentary colleague that Liz Kendall, a prospective candidate for British Labour Party leadership ‘would not make a good leader because she does not have children.’ [1] The same argument was advanced, in different form, in respect of Theresa May, British Prime Minister between 2016 – 2019, who was accused by fellow parliamentarian Andrea Leadsom of being unfit for office as leader of the Conservative Party, and by extension, future Prime Minister, because she did not have children. The