In this interview, Rajagopal says that the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has emerged in response to the media-saturated society the BJP has built, one where declining legacy media profits have produced not reform but servility. Excerpts:The world watched as tens of thousands of young people gathered under a satirical outfit called the Cockroach Janta Party. If the attention economy is restructuring politics, what happens when attention is drawn to gatherings of Cockroaches? There, the public constituted on screen and the public assembled in the street parted company; the protests are the audit of that divergence. The Cockroach Janta Party took its name from the bench, its aesthetic from the meme economy, and its tools from the propagandist’s own AI—and inverted them all.