  We present a detailed study of a close pair of clusters of galaxies, A3532
and A3530, and their environments. The \textit{Chandra} X-ray image of A3532
reveals presence of substructures on scales of $\sim$20$^{\prime\prime}$ in its
core. XMM-Newton maps of the clusters show excess X-ray emission from an
overlapping region between them. Spectrally determined projected temperature
and entropy maps do not show any signs of cluster scale mergers either in the
overlapping region or in any of the clusters. In A3532, however, some signs of
the presence of galaxy scale mergers are visible e.g., anisotropic temperature
variations in the projected thermodynamic maps, a wide angled tailed (WAT)
radio source in the brighter nucleus of its dumbbell Brightest Cluster Galaxy
(BCG), and a candidate X-ray cavity coincident with the northwestern extension
of the WAT source in the low-frequency radio observations. The northwestern
extension in A3532 seems either a part of the WAT or an unrelated diffuse
source in A3532 or in the background. There is an indication that the cool core
in A3532 has been disrupted by the central AGN activity. A reanalysis of the
redshift data reinforces the close proximity of the clusters. The excess
emission in the overlapping region appears to be a result of tidal interactions
as the two clusters approach each other for the first time. However, we can not
rule out the possibility of the excess being due to the chance superposition of
their X-ray halos.
