Roy Rogered: Believe me, there is nothing more pompous than a writer with an award. Falling into this category is the insufferable Indian novelist Arundahti Roy who, after winning a Booker prize for writing one of those smarmy socially conscious novels that the New York Review of Books labels "groundbreaking" or "definitive" or some other dime-a-dozen adjective, promptly got herself arrested protesting the building of a dam (huh?), insulted the presiding judge, and found her spoiled backside in a jail cell for a couple of days. Naturally, she emerged shamelessly claiming herself a hero for enduring such a terrible ordeal.

I once read that the job of a satirist is to Puncture all Pomposity. Perhaps that's why it pleased me so to see Amrit Dhillon puncture her pomposity in this properly pointed article.