Power, Prophecy, and Politics in Samit Basu’s Select Novels

Abstract

This paper claims that Samit Basu’s characters’ power conflicts mimic real-world social hierarchies, where people and groups navigate, contest, and redefine their positions in his Game World Trilogy. This study uses Michel Foucault’s power theory to examine Basu’s Game World Trilogy’s power relations. Power is about control, influence, resistance, and change, and the research analyses how these dynamics are expressed in innovative character relationships. In the trilogy, heroes and villains fight, prophecies appear, and mythological animals form alliances. Power is continuously fought and redefined. This research shows that Basu’s work explores power’s fluid, unstable character in fiction and in everyday social institutions. Relationships between power and society in modern politics.