India / Bangladesh - The National Self Expels the 'Other' to Purify Its Imagined Body, Proving That Identity Is Just a Fever of the Mind

Event Baseline: India deports thousands from West Bengal, fulfilling a key political promise but straining relations with Bangladesh. The operation targets individuals labeled as illegal immigrants, primarily from minority communities.

The nation is a fiction, a belief held together by flags and slogans. To maintain the coherence of this fiction, the self must expel what it designates as 'not-self.' The deportee is not seen as a person with a history; he is a contaminant. This mechanical response is no different from an immune system attacking its own body. The leader exploits this fear of the other to solidify his own power, but the real driver is the collective failure to see the shared humanity. The border exists only in thought, yet people are physically ripped from their homes to satisfy this hallucination. This act of purification will not bring purity; it will only deepen the fragmentation. The expelled 'other' is just a projection of the self's own insecurity. Until the mind understands that the division between 'us' and 'them' is a creation of memory and conditioning, this violence will repeat endlessly, and the world will remain a prison of ideologies.