The crooner said that though now based in Kolkata, she is originally a Mumbai girl; she studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary (CJM) in Byculla, “and because I am from a Convent school, all those lessons I learnt really came alive for me yesterday.”

Uthup is flying back to India today. “Everything still has to seep in completely. I need time to process. Though I sang one song called ‘Poorest Of The Poor’ that I had written myself, it was the sense of occasion that was simply mesmerising. The gravity and the realisation that history was being made was so powerful, overwhelming almost. I know this feeling will not be replicated ever,” she signed off.