Hyderabad, June 12 -- "It is just a Dheevara moment", a viral Instagram reel reads with Baahubali's Dheevara playing in the background as visuals of Hyderabad's Nexity drenched in rain take centre stage.

Just a few metres away, red taillights stretched into eternity on the Dugram Cheruvu cable bridge, and waterlogged roads at the IKEA rotary caused corporate employees to be stranded on the roads. The recent rainfall battered Hyderabad with trees uprooted, two dead and immense damage to infrastructure.

Yet, scrolling through Instagram, your experience might have been entirely different. There is a glaring disconnect in how the rain is perceived online; you would think the IT corridor had been transformed into an ethereal, romantic paradi...