[Date Blocked] In the belly of the beast is a freewheeling conversation anchored by Anant Maringanti on what it means to be Urban in the 21st century. It will draw on examples from the experience of researching, writing, teaching and community engagement at Hyderabad Urban Lab. Thematically, much of this work centres around waste, infrastructure and informal work, water and transportation, ageing, women's work. But the goal of the conversation is to raise one central question and find plausible answers: how should we be speaking to each other in the 21st century Hyderabad. This implies of course that the conversation would be around the conceptual tools, technologies and organizational practices.It would be around identity, difference, deprivation, injury and exploitation. The goal is to even tentatively forge new ideas to shape our shared lives.