India, July 5 -- A Mumbai-based entrepreneur has recalled spending countless monsoon nights bailing rainwater out of his chawl home, saying he "hated rains" for 7 years because flooding regularly left his family unable to sleep.

Taking to LinkedIn, Shubham Gune, founder and CEO of advertising and marketing agency Hinglish, shared how heavy rainfall would routinely flood his family's home during Mumbai's monsoon season. "I've lived in chawls in Bombay where rainwater would come inside the house. If it rained hard at night, nobody could even dream of sleeping," he wrote.

Gune recalled that the water would first enter through the window, then seep under the door before slowly spreading across the floor. "We would lift the mattress, the clo...