The idea of river agency is not new, but we are unfamiliar with it because human agency dominates our knowledge practices; as a result, we skip river agency.

The river connectivity between Bangladesh and India will come into sharp focus when a 3,200km luxury cruise, the world's longest, connects the Indian town of Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, with Diburgarh town in Assam with nearly half of the journey through Bangladesh territory, from January 13.