This is Bengaluru vs the floods

This is why the situation in Bengaluru right now hurts the whole of India.

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00:00Welcome to one of the world's most famous cities on a particularly rainy day.

00:04Bangalore! This is the family of an Indian CEO who founded a billion-dollar

00:08company in Bengaluru. It is not brought to its knees by heavy rains. Very, very

00:12heavy this year. Bengaluru is also known as Asia's Silicon Valley. This is cute, but

00:17Ansh's last episode of barking at the camera is God of Munjal's dog. Munjal is the CEO

00:21of Unacademy, the ed-tech startup that's valued at more than 3 billion dollars.

00:24Not joking. Bengaluru is the hub of startups. It is home to at least 19

00:28unicorns. Those are startups already valued at upwards of 1 billion dollar

00:32like Munjal's Unacademy. Over the past few days, thousands and thousands of

00:37Bangaloreans were forced to hit the streets despite heavy rains. Many

00:40boarded trucks to get to their offices. Bengaluru's city is around 2% of

00:44Karnataka's land area, but contributes nearly 40% of the state's domestic

00:47product. Earth movers are famous in India for other reasons, but in Bengaluru, these

00:51people found it useful transport. Just a week back, IT firms and banks situated on

00:56the city's outer ring road said they had incurred a loss of rupees 225 crore

01:00owing to the heavy rains and flooding on the 30th of August. When it's not a

01:03traffic jam on Bengaluru's outer ring road, it's this. Helpless people taking

01:08to tractors and rescue rafts. This scooty rider was lucky. In another part of the

01:13city, a 23-year-old woman died of electrocution after slipping off her

01:17two-wheeler while returning home from work. Oh, least we forget, the traffic

01:21jams did not disappear completely, of course. This was the scene on the

01:24Marathalee-Silkport Junction Road.