The lived experience of urban space in India is as much a matter of narrativesas it is of negotiations.Things get done via fluid constellations of groups with an opaque,entangled,indeterminate spatial existenceshapingpolitical possibility. Exploring metropolitan and small-town India's lived experience interlocking materialities of land, water, economy and gendered space,Cities Untoldassembles diverse works, treating text as texture and spatial representation.It combines first-person accountsto curate readings, films, media,andrefreshes a 'southern urban' that is usually locked within predictable narratives of opportunity and dystopia.