Pukaar is centered around using an ethnographic approach to understanding urban poverty in India. The main idea is to listen to the “pukaar” – the voices – of those systematically disenfranchised and written out of the historical record. The urban poor are so often invisibilized even though they are all around us, and are often talked about very abstractly only in terms of numbers and figures instead of through lived experiences. With our project, we would like to present a more nuanced outlook on how the urban poor live and interact with the state. By the end of our project, we would like to have contributed to publicly accessible knowledge that captures the overlap between various forms of social exclusion in a developing country like ours.