'Bengaluru aspires to join the first world, but...': Sridhar Vembu explains why growth in India's IT capital is killing itself amid flooded streets

Bengalurus future is deeply entangled with Indias rural reality. Billionaire Sridhar Vembu has highlighted how unchecked rural migration, fuelled by economic imbalance and poor infrastructure, threatens to overwhelm the city. From underpaid farm work to overloaded hospitals, the gap between rural and urban India is widening. In a detailed post, Vembu calls for a rural manufacturing revolution to fix this divide and ease pressure on cities like Bengaluru, which are buckling under their own growth. His diagnosis is economic—and urgent.