Unlike the stable geology of Singapore or Hong Kong, the Great Nicobar region undergoes cyclical movements of slow uplift and sudden subsidence. The integrity of a port, an airport, or a city cannot be guaranteed on land that repeatedly drops by several metres in a few seconds. To build large-scale, permanent infrastructure on such unstable ground is to gamble billions on the illusion that engineering can outwit plate tectonics.

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