In his documentary ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’, Michael Moore describes how propaganda that Barack Obama is a socialist did not work for his opponents, but in fact made more and more people curious about what socialism is, consequently increasing its approval rating in the country.

Something similar happened in India last week. As BJP supporters in Tripura bulldozed Lenin’s statues in the state and threatened to do so in other places and to other non-BJP icons like Ambedkar and Periyar, people in India began to ask, “Who Lenin was?”