Bengaluru man dresses up as Lord Yama to protest bad roads

The pothole-ridden roads in Bengaluru have inspired many creative protests by residents over the years.

This time the residents of Anjanapura in south Bengaluru invited 'Lord Yama', the god of death, to travel along a 13-km stretch of road, and a video of that is going viral on social media.

In the video, an unidentified man dressed up as Lord Yama is seen holding on to a buffalo while people in the background raise slogans.


"Anjanapura residents in #Bengaluru carried out an innovative protest by inviting Lord Yama to highlight #pothole issue in their locality. The protest was to highlight the bad stretch of road, and how strenuous it is for commuters on a daily basis." wrote a user who shared the video on Twitter. The unique protest took place over the weekend.

Some months ago, it was residents in the same locality who staged another unique protest by hiring a coracle to cross the pothole-ridden Anjanapura Main Road. Some of them even planted paddy saplings.

A few years ago, an artist in Bengaluru got authorities to rush and fill a big pothole in a north Bengaluru road by placing a life-size fibre crocodile in the muddy waters. A few months later, this protest was replicated on another road with a fibre anaconda.