There are issues that bring the countries of South Asia together and those that divide them. However, on one issue, the interests of the peoples and the governments of South Asia, stand clearly fused. This is the issue of poverty. Notwithstanding the despair of poverty statistics, a poverty-free South Asia is not an impossible dream. Such a dream has already found roots in millions of hearts in the villages and in the towns, in the fields and in the factories, in offices and in homes across the length and breadth of South Asia. The future has already been dreamt. Realizing it is our individual and collective responsibility.