India's secrecy disregards the enormous and long term environmental consequences the people on the western side of Sri Lanka would have to bear if the project sees the light of day. Besides, the United Nations Law of the Sea binds that two nations be partners in the instance of such a project being taken up.

- Elmo Leonard 

The discourses on the Sethusamudram project in India have tended largely to ignore the various views and concerns raised by civil society and media in Sri Lanka

By Dr. T T Sreekumar

The Sethusamudram Project has a very important geo-political dimension. It would give India a firm grip on one of the world's most strategic and busiest sea-lanes