India: Sonia Gandhi's Memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' Released
- Published by HarperCollins India, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi's memoir "Belonging: A Journey of Love" releases on November 10. On Sunday, Gandhi described it as "not a political book but a personal one."
- Ending an "impasse" with Penguin Random House India, the memoir chronicles the Gandhi family's major tragedies: Sanjay Gandhi's plane crash, Indira Gandhi's 1984 assassination, and Rajiv Gandhi's 1991 assassination, tracing her journey from a 19-year-old in England to India.
- Regarding the memoir, Sonia noted "Much has been written about my family, but rarely with real insight into who they were." She emphasized that love and loyalty anchored her story across more than five decades in India.
- The former Congress president asserted that India's democracy has suffered "great damage" in the past 12 years under the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. She claimed the opposition "have not had a level playing field" since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power.
- Gandhi remains optimistic that India's system will eventually return to proper governance despite current damage. She views the memoir as her account of belonging, hoping to share what she witnessed over more than five decades in the country.
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Why Penguin Random House dropped Sonia Gandhi's memoir after she targeted Modi government
Besides her criticism, Gandhi has acknowledged that Narendra Modi and she come from very different ideological worlds and background and that his idea of the country was vastly different from hers.
At 79, this discreet woman publishes her memoirs, in which she returns to her destiny marked, in her words, by "love, duty, mourning and the search for a place to find her place". The book, entitled "Belonging: A Journey of Love" ("The feeling of belonging: a journey of love"), appears in English on November 10, while the Congress party she led for more than two decades is seeking to regain her political influence. For weeks, her son Rahul, lead…
This is the most anticipated political-literary event of the end of the year in India. Sonia Gandhi, who has become one of the country's most influential women, publishes her memoirs Belonging: A Journey of Love (a love journey) is published this Tuesday in bookstores. A long-standing political figure, Sonia Gandhi, traces her journey from her Italian childhood to her marriage with Rajiv Gandhi in 1968, before becoming a widow at the age of 44. …
India: Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' released
The book goes through the Italian-born matriarch's journey with one of India's most politically influential families. It has already garnered political controversy, with the ruling BJP accusing her of "whitewashing."
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