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Center-Left Owned by New Generation Media Corporation Pvt. Ltd.Sonia Gandhi’s memoir sells briskly; Kerala CM, Tharoor among first buyers
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Nishikant Dubey has publicly questioned Sonia Gandhi’s depiction of Sanjay Gandhi as a villain and Rajiv Gandhi as a hero, a portrayal that appears in her memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love. The book also recounts early family disagreements and growing political divisions with Maneka Gandhi after Sanjay’s death, as well as other personal recollections such as an error about Ahmed Patel’s death year and memories of conversations with Pranab Mukherjee. No further details about the criticism or the memoir’s content are provided in the excerpts.
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In her new memoir, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi recalls the horrors of the 2002 Gujarat riots and recounts visiting relief camps with an all-party delegation.
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New Delhi: More than three decades after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has still not seen the photograph of her husband’s remains taken in the aftermath of the explosion. In her tell-all memoir, Belonging A Journey of…
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In her memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, Sonia Gandhi recounts tensions with Maneka Gandhi, from early disagreements in the family home to growing political divisions after Sanjay Gandhi’s death.
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Booksellers in Delhi, Bengaluru, and Kerala say the memoir has drawn the kind of attention few recent titles have, with enquiries and pre-orders still coming in
