Arundhati Roy became a world-reknowned writer, first, as the author of the Booker prize-winning, The God of Small Things, and then as an activist, and an inspiration to those who support the poor and oppressed and oppose all the powers that inflict injustice in the world. By her own admission, Roy likes to call herself a ‘hooligan'. When you look at her, it's a little difficult to square the elegant, articulate, passionate and soft spoken person, with this definition. Try as one might, one cannot conjure up a violent, indisciplined, anarchist avatar. So what does she mean by this self-description? Can someone, who is so moved by the beauty of small, quotidian things, be a hooligan?