the 'Daily' Newspapers and yarns of Power
Borders are strengthened not only through tangible force(s), but ideas as well. In order to distinguish a territory as a unique nation and intensify borders between nations, the project of homogeneity within a nation is constantly reinforced. The stronger the national identity, the more united the front against other countries. What is the cost of homogeneity? Homogeneity, as history has shown us, often involves erasure. Imagine a messy ball of yarn wound together. It initially has strings of saffron, blue and green twirling together, strands here and there, some meeting and some falling away. Now. imagine we are told that it needs to be organized and made "neat". Separate the yarn by colours- saffron alone, blue alone, green alone. But now we have other yarn balls coming in, and we want to look perfect for them- uniform, put together, recognizable. So we throw away the blue, we throw away the green. Discarded and denied, but still there in the brightness of their colours,
