A Bengaluru Artist Placed A Fake Life-Sized Crocodile In A Pothole To Protest The City’s Awful Roads

On June 18, artist Baadal Nanjundaswamy decided to call the authorities’ attention to a huge water-logged pothole on the busy Sultanpalya traffic junction…

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By placing a life-sized model crocodile bang in the middle of it.

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With the pothole having been ignored by officials for over a month, commuters were more than happy to drive around Baadal as he prepared the exhibit.

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Upon completion, he left the fake croc to chill in the pothole for a full 10 minutes as a crowd gathered around this exceptional protest.

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This isn’t the first time Baadal has highlighted the poor state of Bengaluru’s roads with his art.

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Exactly a year ago in 2014, he had drawn Yama, the Hindu God of death, around an unattended open manhole in the middle of a busy road.

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