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The novel Reit Ki Macchali (The Sandfish) by Kanta Bharti, the first wife of Dharmveer Bharti is an atrocity narrative dealing with individual trauma and acts as a witness of the oppressive social/family structures that call for and assert agency and advocacy. It is less a victim narrative than a survivor tale that demand what Schaffer and Smith term an "ethics of recognition" by altering the configurations of public sphere itself, intervening in the very notion of the social and the political through the archive of trauma. In the course of their groundbreaking work on