The rain and hailstorm in Bengaluru has affected a lot of people including the city's popular independent bookstore, The Bookworm, which revealed that they had to bear the brunt of heavy rains that lashed the city on Wednesday evening.

In a social media post, the bookstore shared pictures of rain-soaked books saying they had lost about 4,000-5,000 books worth several lakhs were damaged due to flooding at the bookstore located on Church Street.