Indira Goswami’s Pages Stained with Blood (Goswami 2002) is more than a novel; it is a piercing testimony of witnessing violence, loss, and resilience during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in Delhi. What began as an attempt to document the layered beauty of Delhi’s past under the Mughals and British Raj turns into a harrowing narrative of bloodshed and betrayal, as the author finds herself recording the brutal realities unfolding around her. Through the eyes of a woman academic living in Delhi, the narrative captures the everyday lives of ordinary Sikhs whose stories are intertwined with the city’s history and whose existence is shattered overnight by state complicity and communal hatred that followed after Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Originally published in Assamese as Tej aru Dhulire Dhushorito Pristha (Goswami 1995), the text becomes an intimate account of a city’s descent into chaos, portraying moments of quiet resistance, collective mourning, and the unspoken grief of survivors who search for lost family members and neighbors in refugee camps. The novel blurs the boundaries between fiction and lived experience, bringing to the forefront voices often erased in the pages of official histories. In chronicling these stories of violence and resilience, Goswami transforms personal grief into a collective memory, emphasizing the power of literature to confront uncomfortable truths and preserve the fragments of lives lost to communal violence. This paper examines how Pages Stained with Blood becomes a space for memory and resistance through trauma theory and feminist narrative ethics, illustrating how storytelling can stand against silence and how the act of witnessing can transform trauma into a call for justice.