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"The art to cure, especially external injuries, was inherited from mother to daughter ever since the 17th century. Already my great-great-great-grandmother was helping injured people, Hedda Andersson would say. To further stress how far back the family's art of healing went, she used to add "Öand then Karl XI was king". Her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother had all been sought after women in several ways: both by people in need of their help and by the authorities trying to convict them for charlatanry."

"Sunetra Fernando is a cause for celebration. So much of so-called Malaysian culture gather dust at museums; sometimes they are taught at national schools as holy traditions to be studied, preserved and not to be influenced by bad western influence, and when it pleases the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism, they are showcased as tourist fodder. But here comes Sunetra, all grin and cute auntie specs, blowing the parochialism off and setting these gongs and gamelan instruments into what she calls “contemporary structures.""