Then perhaps we can see not just ‘their success’, their sinister moves, that we accept as always overpowering, but also our failure. The failure of our truth to establish itself. There are any number of media voices and websites that are, for example, providing fact-checkers and exposing the lies of right-wing populism. When Modi in his speech in Gonda on Feb 24, 2017 connected the horrific Kanpur train accident with ‘conspiracy from across the border’, there were many who called out the bluff. When, around the same time, Modi said crime rates are highest in the country in UP, a fact-checker proved his data was wrong.