thank you

for the emails of support, concern, outrage. I'm not able to respond to each one - partly because my online access is limited to cybercafes with slow connections, sticky keyboards, early closing hours; and partly because I'm channelling thought, feeling, energy, emerging info, into a single communication that I hope to put out in the next couple of days.

But I can't tell you what they mean. I think you know - because you knew to send them. They are, as one of you says wind in my sails from corners I don't even know about. (Bless you, C - may every cobblestone of the Marais sing as your foot treads it).

A Zanzibar newspaper, The African, ran a piece yesterday, on me being forced off the stage. I haven't seen it yet. I was told the title was something like Indian Artist Dismayed by Crowd Reaction., which makes me think I'd rather not read it.

Tanzania's The Citizen newspaper will carry a more in-depth article by journalist Morris Mwavizio this Friday.