Amidst outrage over Muslims doing Iftar and throwing bones in Ganga, TheWire attempts to secularise the sacred river for the old objective of shielding Islamists

In an opinion piece titled, "Who Owns the Ganga? A River of Many Faiths, Not One", a Delhi-based writer, translator and researcher, Rakhshanda Jalil, offers family memories, Urdu poetry, and a dash of melodrama to establish a narrative that Ganga is a ‘secular’ river not owned only by Hindus.