How an Artist is Changing Bengaluru Streets, One Pothole at a Time

As Bengaluru preps for the upcoming civic body polls on Saturday, it will be interesting to see how the scary crocodiles and gigantic anacondas that have appeared on the city's water-logged and pothole-ridden roads recently will affect voters.

The city 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.

The charge has been led by Baadal Nanjundaswamy who shook up social media and local authorities (into making amends) by creating a life-size crocodile and swamp as an installation to highlight a pothole that hadn't been fixed for days.
 
The crocodile did the trick and the pothole was filled. Since then, Mr Nanjundaswamy has been changing the face of Bengaluru pot holes, one brush stroke after another.

From transforming broken dividers into sutli bombs in one place and wrapped gifts in another, to painting huge faces around uncovered man holes, his art work is incredible and delivers results.

Check out some of his work below:

A little Diwali gift - major social media explosion in 3-2-1:
 Bengaluru's Secret Santa leaving them colorfully wrapped gifts for Christmas:
 How about this Valentine's Day proposal to civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)?
 Or these fearsome faces with gaping mouths?
 They needed a zebra-crossing, so that's what they got - a zebra crossing the road:
 Would you like a game of Hopscotch on one of Bengaluru's streets? It could be fun but also might be the only thing you do for a while:
 Click here to check out more of Baadal Nanjundaswamy's extraordinary work. And do let us know what you think of these art installations using the comments section below.