While real crackers during Dīpāvali have been banned, the metaphorical ones light up with clockwork precision: Dīpāvali is a festival of lights not sound, crackers are not Hindu because they are a modern invention, and there is no mention of crackers in scriptures. We follow the Constitution but neither is it found in any scripture, and I found out that comparing the articles in the Constitution to different types of crackers makes one a Sanghi. The whole drama was played out on Twitter with a very predictable sequence of events, which got me thinking about the equation of power and politics in social media and the real world. We talk about creating an ecosystem and end up antagonizing people who wield power on the ground because they have a different opinion from ours. While I do not have answers in this episode, I raise questions on our identity, on our community, and on who we identify as a part of the community. Also, for those from Gujarat, Sāl Mubārak.