I went home to the “field,” to Delhi, India and to issues, movements, and sites that I had inhabited before I began my doctoral education at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. My research looked at changing politics of poverty in Delhi through looking at the eviction of bastis—settlements of income-poor urban residents that are often reductively and narrowly referred to as “slums.” Delhi is a city scarred by the repeated demolitions of the homes of the poor with even official data recognizing 217 different instances of eviction between 1990 and 2007. My research asked how these evictions occurred as well as how democratic processes justified them and even presented them as legitimate acts of good governance and planning. I sought to understand what such framings told us about poverty, inequality, and citizenship in contemporary Indian cities.