the highlight of the day, though speakers like Magsaysay award winner Aruna Roy and Lebohang Pheko, a South African gender and trade activist, talked of solidarity and struggle. was the hard rocking folk band from Nepal, Nepathya, which played the opening notes of the closing plenary. Nepathya was followed by the 'Naga Bob Dylan', Rewben Mashangva, who played his version of folk blues.
from Bangladesh, led by Maya Rani, who provided power and vibrancy to the evening.
