Defending her remarks on National Population Register (NPR), author Arundhati Roy asked, "Is it ok for PM...to lie to us but a criminal offence...for us people to have a laugh?" "What I was proposing was civil disobedience with a smile," she said. "Give your name as Ranga-Billa, Kung Fu kutta, and address as 7 RCR in NPR," she had said.