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India’s expanding inland waterways network links river freight with roads, railways, terminals and logistics hubs.

Can India’s river freight boom cut logistics costs, road congestion and emissions?

Lower per-tonne freight costs, sharply lower fuel use, multimodal terminals, Jalvahak incentives and private investment are shaping a system in which heavy cargo can move by river for the longest, most efficient leg of journeys.

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Punjab insurgency victims remembered through photographs, memorials and fading records while perpetrators retain public prominence

The victims that Punjab politics chose to forget

Local memorials, police webpages, press-freedom records and family recollections preserve fragments of those killed, while incomplete archives, political commemorations and cultural narratives continue shaping which victims remain visible and which gradually disappear from public memory.

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