The Palk palaver; India and Sri Lanka.(An Indo-Sri Lankan canal row)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 6, 2004 | Copyright information

A unilateral canal

A BIG bugbear in India's relations with its neighbours is its habit of announcing cross-border infrastructure projects without consulting them. Sri Lanka, for example, is incensed about a plan to dig a shipping canal through a 19-mile (30km) stretch of shallow sea in the Palk strait, which separates the two countries. At present, big ships plying between the east and west coasts of India have to circumnavigate Sri Lanka. This channel, first conceived i...

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