For long NGOs and the activists in India have made rich careers in activism for Muslims, Dalits, and for the farmers. Often, they tend to concentrate on the negative and the trite. They miss - deliberately, one can argue - the positives of a section of the society thus amplifying the feeling of victimization for perpetuity amongst a section. That is how they characterize themselves henceforth. It comes at the real cost of a victim's progress. Here is an excellent article on the bazaar of victims - NGO ishtyle! For five years, Citizen Nagar is, for the NGOs, the symbol of what is wrong with Gujarat’s Muslims. They lost their livelihoods, they are far from their places of work, schools or medical facilities. But who chose that location? Who bought the land and resettled the families near the reeking garbage dump? The same NGOs who are complaining today. Rather than encourage and prepare them to return home or to rebuild their lives, the NGOs, according to a prominent Muslim philanthropist, “threw money at the families and created victims for life”. Read more