Sonia Gandhi's memoir explores love and her path in politics
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's upcoming memoir will reflect on marrying into India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, her political career and her decision to decline the Prime Minister's office.
In brief
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's upcoming memoir will reflect on marrying into India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, her political career and her decision to decline the Prime Minister's office. Sonia Gandhi's memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, published November tenth, twenty twenty-six, reflects on her life in India's…
Sonia Gandhi announces memoir
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha Member Sonia Gandhi has a memoir coming out this fall.Alfred A.Knopf announced on Tuesday, August eighteen, twenty twenty-six, that Belonging: A Journey of Love will be published on November ten.
From Italy to India's political dynasty
Sonia Gandhi, seventy-nine, is a native of Italy who was studying in Cambridge, England, when she met fellow student Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and son of India's first female…
Tragedy shaped her political path
In Belonging, she writes of her life being upended when her mother-in-law was assassinated in nineteen eighty-four and succeeded by Rajiv Gandhi, who was also murdered seven years later. She too would eventually enter politics.
She declined the Prime Minister's office
Sonia Gandhi became the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress Party while also turning down her party's offer to become Prime Minister. Her party lost power to Bharatiya Janata Party in twenty fourteen.
Heartbreak threw her into politics
It was heartbreak and loss that threw me into the public world of politics. Up till then I had guarded my privacy fiercely, Sonia Gandhi said in her statement about the memoir.
“It was heartbreak and loss that threw me into the public world of politics. Up till then I had guarded my privacy fiercely”
Writing opened her private world
Writing about my life did not come easily to me.It meant opening myself up, sharing moments and experiences I had always held deep inside, Gandhi said.
“Writing about my life did not come easily to me. It meant opening myself up, sharing moments and experiences I had always held deep inside”
A thread of love and loyalty
The thread of love and loyalty that wove through her story began to define itself, from the simplicity of her childhood in small-town Italy to the complexity of her years in India as wife of…
A homage to her family's humanity
Much has been written about my family, but few narratives were able to reach into the truth of their motivations, their actions and even their very human failings.
“Much has been written about my family, but few narratives were able to reach into the truth of their motivations, their actions and even their very human failings”
At a glance
Sonia Gandhi's memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, published November tenth, twenty twenty-six, reflects on her life in India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty and her decision to turn down the Prime Minister's office.
