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The Flood That Begins Beyond the Map: A Nepal Debris Flow and India's Upstream Blind Spot

A destructive debris-laden flash flood struck the Budhi Gandaki in Gorkha, Nepal, on 11 October 2026 and the river level at Arughat peaked at 8.43 metres. Indian glaciologists warned that the same hazard runs along the entire Indian Himalayan arc. That revived the question of whether India's glacial-lake monitoring and early-warning systems can protect downstream communities from events that begin upstream, including across…