In sickness and in health How border regions can be central to building a post-pandemic Southasia. (This article is part of our special series Unmasking Southasia: The pandemic issue. You can read the editorial note to the series here.) In many ways, the call for the regional revival of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 was designed to fail. After all, the geopolitical red tape that followed the creation of the COVID-19 Emergency Fund played to a predictable pattern of gridlocked regionalism, with India and Pakistan ...