Lotus flowers blossomed across a section of Bengaluru's dirt-ridden old airport road.
Residents of the Garden City were in for a visual treat on Thursday afternoon. Lotus flowers blossomed across a section of Bengaluru's dirt-ridden old airport road.
The vibrant red, pink and purple flowers in a puddle astonished people and at the same time captivated their attention. They were, however, surprised to find that the flowers weren't real, rather made from thermocol.
The appearance of the flowers comes just days after a crocodile and a giant anaconda appeared on the city's water-logged and pothole-ridden roads.
With the municipal corporation elections scheduled for Saturday, the flowers were 'planted' by a local artist to bring to light the squalid condition of the streets of the city.
Bengaluru has been struggling with polluted lakes, garbage crisis, bad roads and crippling traffic management for a while now. Fed up with the state of affairs, local artists took it upon themselves to make sure the problems spoke for themselves, using imagination and art as their tools.