00:00One hour, that's all it took. One hour of rain and India's so-called global tech capital folded
00:04like a paper boat. Kachibauli, Madhapur, the financial district, the postcode where trillion
00:09dollar companies park their India dreams underwater by dinner time. Techies who write
00:14codes that run the world's banks spent four hours marooned on flyovers because their city
00:18cannot move water from point A to point B. We can land on the moon's south pole, we cannot build
00:23a
00:24drain. And here's the part that should make your blood boil. This is not news. Every single year,
00:282020, 2022, last September, now. The same streets, the same knee-deep water, the same GHMC
00:34press release about teams on high alert. High alert for what? The monsoon is not a surprise attack,
00:40it has arrived on schedule for roughly 10,000 years. The traffic jams, I know there was a huge
00:45outburst on social media, but you'd be surprised, the jams were actually good news. Because the real
00:49bad news was actually this. In the old city, a 15-year-old boy and a 30-year-old auto
00:53rickshaw
00:54driver stepped out into the rain and were electrocuted by a live wire lying in the water.
00:57A child died because a wire fell and nobody had secured it. We've concretized our lakes,
01:02built glass towers on stormwater channels and sold world-class city brochures while the actual
01:06city drowns in its own arrogance. Every flooded underpass is a signed confession. So no, don't
01:12tell us about orange alerts and control room numbers. Tell us which engineer, which contractor,
01:16which babu answers for a dead 15-year-old. Hyderabad was once a city that understood water. The
01:21Qutub Shahis built it around lakes. The Nizam's engineered tanks that held the monsoon like a promise.
01:26400 years later, we've buried those lakes under tech parks and now the water is simply coming
01:32home. It remembers where it used to live. The question is, why don't we? Tell us what
01:36you think of this mess. Like and share this video and follow more for more hard-hitting
01:40coverage of India's biggest civic problems. I'm Manisha Vikari. Thank you for watching.
01:43First things first.
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