The Borderless Wave: Why Tibetan Avalanches Drown the Indian Plains: Santa believes that a rock-ice avalanche in remote Tibet and Nepal cannot threaten his district in the flat plains of India because “water respects international borders.” Banta uses the transboundary surge of the 26 August 2026 Nepal floods and the 2023 Sikkim disaster to prove why gravity carries no passport, demanding automated transboundary data-sharing to save millions.