All these questions link up to the same burning issue: the stunting of local government and politics in India’s great cities. When one local public utility debates another, when some residents are to be inconvenienced to aid commuters, the issues are local, and should be settled locally, by an active municipal politics and an empowered municipality. Discussing and solving problems at this level leads to solid political backing, which gets projects going: Delhi’s Metro benefited greatly from the fact that it was answering to no state government with divided loyalties. As long as India’s state governments continue to, for their own reasons, resist the devolution of power to local bodies, Sealinks will be but a drop in the ocean of the infrastructure necessary to create cities that rival the best-equipped in the world.