New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Climate Change & You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to the newsletter to get it directly in your inbox.

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The climate crisis does not recognise borders. India and Pakistan spent 14th and 15th August busy demonising each other, while celebrating their common independence from colonialism. Meanwhile, deadly cloudbursts and flash floods were decimating mountain communities on both sides of the border and leading to mass casualties.

In India, the small village of Chositi in Kishtwar's Pabbar Valley in Jammu and Kashmir was inundated by a flash flood on 14 August, killing at least 65 people. The number of casualties is expected to rise, because the vill...