Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper research in area studies in times when we cannot be mobile.
We were very pleased by the response and the great number of high quality articles that were submitted. After a careful selection process, we have now published the 14 best articles as a special issue of our SASNET journal Chakra, titled "Articulations of a Pandemic - Researching and Navigating South Asia in the Times of Covid-19".