Party with Pride

The Pride March,with its bursts of rainbow colour,ended at Jantar Mantar on Sunday,but the party would begin only later in the evening. Large groups made their way to the Rock for Rights concert,organised by Engendered,a transnational arts and human rights organisation,at The Lalit. This is where a range of popular musicians promised a blast to end the evening. Like most fashionable events,Rock for Rights was delayed by an hour-and-a-half,and the nippy night at the open space did not help the waiting audience.

While pop artiste Suman Sridhar kick-started the evening with a quirky and light performance,it was Assamese group Papon and the East India Company who upped the ante with their Assamese folk and Bollywood numbers. Alisha Batth came in next,with a range of edgy English numbers,including a cover of Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn. But,the evening clearly belonged to playback singer Rekha Bhardwaj,who belted out a series of Bollywood hits,to the joy of the crowd. Her performance ensured that everybody was on their feet swaying to songs like Genda phool and Namak ishq ka.