Urban warriors

Colour Coordinated/ Dedeepya Reddy, 31

While travelling on the Mumbai metro, Dedeepya Reddy, 31, glanced at the "beautiful but untouched landscape of Asalpha village slums" and decided to use the settlement as a canvas to give the city a coat of colour inspired by Italy's Positano.

"I was reminded of the unwarranted negativity that most conversations about slums have. With colour, we can change people's outlook towards these areas and also create a positive emotion among the residents," she says. Fuelled by an aggressive social media campaign and armed with paints donated by manufacturers, Reddy and her team called Chal Rang De of around 1000 volunteers transformed Asalpha village, painting its walls and roofs.

Eventually, she painted three more slums in Khar in May and they got more than 2800 volunteers to chip in to colour the suburban