Beyond the standard format of a discipline confined to the national framework, there is a dire need for a disciplinary practice that entails connections within the region. Such connections were visible during the COVID-19 pandemic in the varied and common experiences of issues across the region. Reasoning with thematic and experiential connections, there is space for building a sociology of South Asia. Without such a possible sociology in and of South Asia, the requisite overcoming of the moribund state of the discipline will remain a far cry and wishful thinking.