COVID-19 in South Asia : state practices, responses and the experiences of persons with disability within the region

This idea for this special volume on Disability and COVID-19 in South Asia came up at a time when all of us, globally and locally, were struggling with the pandemic for the majority of 2020. Bringing out this volume under the aegis of journal Disability and the Global South (DGS) is significant. DGS has aimed to first identify and acknowledge the diversity of disability experiences in the Global South and, second, make these experiences readily available and accessible to disabled people and their communities in the regions where the contributors themselves are from. In fact, in undertaking this special issue as editors, we would like to recognize the incredible persistence of our contributors to continue to work with us throughout the development of the papers, alongside acknowledging the many original contributors who were also unable to accept our invitation to participate because of the covid19 pandemic impacts upon every aspect of their lives.