From floods in IT city to polarisation, chaotic journey of a ‘progressive’ state

Bengaluru: Karnataka had become a flash point during the year 2022 both for right and wrong reasons. Being called the progressive state, IT hub, education, science and research hub of the country, the state witnessed the worst floods that devastated the IT industry and agricultural sector.
As the state inched closer to elections, Karnataka witnessed chaotic developments in the field of education, business and some of the incidents even threatened to disrupt the day-to-day life of the common man. However, the state was quick to recover and put forth progressive and success stories to the world and the country.
Floods that made the IT industry sink Bengaluru city received the highest rainfall in a single day in the last 38 years in the first week of September. The city was pounded with massive rainfall inundating IT campuses and posh localities where tech population resided.
Images of knee- to waist-deep water on arterial roads, tractors and JCBs moving IT employees, CEOs to and fro from the companies went viral throughout the world exposing the crumbling infrastructure of the city.
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