On Diwali day this year, eight members of the Red Saree Brigade (RSB) were on the streets of Andheri Lokhandwala and Versova beach at the break of dawn. They made live statue formations on streets littered with the previous night's firework waste and held die-in assemblies on the rocks by the beach to highlight the pollution caused by firecrackers.

RSB is a protest movement inspired by London's Red Brigade that made its first political protests during the Iraq War in 2001. As with the mother outfit, members of RSB also wear shades of crimson and engage in acts of civil disobedience. The group formed by the Mumbai chapter of Extinction Rebellion (XR) performs mimes and acts in popular public spaces.