There is a particular social problem that has been developing over the past decade and has become a source of great concern, specifically to the Hindu community of Alexander Village on the south-western edge of Georgetown. It is a particularly dangerous and disruptive development that has attached itself to the Diwali night celebrations in that community and it has managed to bring the popular, secular extensions of those celebrations into disrepute. This has been a very controversial development which has generated considerable public attention because of the reports of anarchy and destruction that seem to have accompanied it. But what can explain it and how is it to be understood?