NEW DELHI, Jan. 9 -- In official parlance, qua bureaucratic lexicon, 'South Asia' refers to a conglomeration of nation-states (the memberstates of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation [SAARC]). And some of us at the university felt at odds with this overly simplistic, utilitarian notion of South Asia, vulnerable to the scheme of the bilateral/ multilateral agreements and disagreements of nationstates. At times, 'we' experienced the grotesque character of such a South Asia in the realm of politics, while at other times, we saw possibilities of symbiosis, continuity and connections cutting across countries in the region and transgressing temporalities within what might be broadly called the realm of culture. Moreover, we have been critically debating what all of this means at different forums at South Asian University. In a nutshell, we have systematically articulated our discomfort with official versions of the bureaucratically (pre) determined idea of the region, and from that feeling of discomfort, we have waged a continuous quest for further exploration....