• M.Divakar
• Dr. J. Dharageswari

This article examines the dynamics of power, authority, and resistance in selected works of Ravinder Singh, with particular focus on Your Dreams Are Mine Now (2014). Drawing on Michel Foucault’s theories of power relations and resistance, the study explores how Singh’s narrative strategies expose the subtle and pervasive operations of authority within educational institutions, interpersonal relationships, and social movements. The analysis foregrounds how power functions not merely through overt domination but through everyday practices, norms, and emotional discourses that shape individual subjectivity. Through close textual reading, the article argues that Singh positions acts of defiance and devotion as significant mechanisms of resistance that challenge institutionalized and socially sanctioned forms of control. Love, commitment, and activism are represented as sites where power is negotiated rather than passively endured. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that Singh’s fiction presents resistance as an everyday, lived practice, in which personal emotions intersect with social responsibility, enabling the reclamation of individual agency and ethical autonomy within pervasive power structures.

Ravinder Singh; Power; Authority; Resistance; Defiance; Devotion; Foucault; Social Dynamics; Narrative Analysis.

"Negotiating Power and Resistance: Authority, Defiance, and Devotion in the Works of Ravinder Singh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.13, Issue 1, page no.a333-a338, January-2026, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2601042.pdf

"Negotiating Power and Resistance: Authority, Defiance, and Devotion in the Works of Ravinder Singh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.13, Issue 1, page no. ppa333-a338, January-2026, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2601042.pdf