Is Delhi's Diwali firework ban an attack on Hinduism?

It was meant as a way to tackle air pollution - but it ended up as the subject of a fierce online debate about religion.
India's supreme court banned selling firecrackers during Diwali, igniting an uproar as some saw the ban as an attack specifically on Hinduism's biggest festival.
Chetan Bhagat, the writer behind Bollywood blockbusters 2 States and 3 Idiots, sparked a massive debate after pumping out a series of tweets objecting to the ban to his more than 10 million followers.