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Sonia Gandhi and the unending agony of belonging

Sonia Gandhi and the unending agony of belonging

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On Tuesday, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi expressed confidence in Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s candidature, saying she will emerge as a passionate champion of Wayanad’s needs and a powerful voice in Parliament.

AI-generated overview from 11 outlets. It summarises their reporting and adds no reporting of its own.

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Her memoir’s title captures what India demands of some citizens and denies others—a lifetime of proving loyalty that is never quite accepted.

5 of the 100 reports on this event credit a wire agency (ANI, PTI or IANS), across 2 different agencies.

Coverage arrived over 51 hours. First from The Indian Express, latest from ANI.

High Corroboration 28 news outlets reporting

How this event was covered

First reported by The Indian Express at 08:20 UTC on 10 Nov.

Coverage ran into a second day.

Across 2 desks: india, politics.

All 28 newsrooms, and who owns them

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  11. Orissa Post Eastern Media Ltd (Sambad Group)

    Kangana Ranaut calls Sonia Gandhi’s biography a ‘self-goal’, takes dig at Rahul

    Mumbai: Actress and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut took a dig at Sonia Gandhi over her biography, questioning several aspects of her account of events surrounding the Gandhi family. Calling the biography a “self-goal”, Kangana also took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi, saying he had inherited his “self-goal talent…

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  17. The Times of India Bennett, Coleman & Co.

    The Australian in Indira's Tihar compound: When Sonia Gandhi carried lunch for Charles Sobhraj's accomplice

    On Christmas Day in 1978, Sonia Gandhi brought a homemade lunch to Tihar Jail for her mother-in-law. Indira Gandhi, a former Prime Minister, was imprisoned during a turbulent political period. The meal was extended to include prison guards and a fellow inmate related to a notorious killer. Despite…

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  19. The Economic Times Bennett, Coleman & Co.

    BJP, RSS told 'lies' about Sonia Gandhi all her life; now she is telling the truth: Priyanka

    Priyanka Gandhi Vadra responded to BJP's criticism of her mother Sonia Gandhi's memoir, calling the accusations false. She emphasized that for years, the BJP and RSS spread lies about her mother without accountability. Vadra mentioned that Sonia Gandhi has the right to share her story and…

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  21. The New Indian Express Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.

    'She has a right to tell her story': Priyanka defends Sonia's memoir amid BJP criticism

    Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday accused the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of spreading falsehoods about her mother, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, for most of her adult life in India, saying they were now dismissing her account in her recently released memoir…

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  25. The Shillong Times The Shillong Times

    In her memoir, Sonia Gandhi recalls palmist’s prediction that Rajiv, not Sanjay, would be PM

    New Delhi, Nov 12: A strange encounter with a palmist at the Gandhi family’s erstwhile residence in Delhi decades ago, which initially appeared amusing, later acquired an unsettling significance in the wake of a series of political tragedies. The incident, recalled by Congress Parliamentary Party…

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  37. Frontline The Hindu Group (Kasturi & Sons) Current article

    Sonia Gandhi and the unending agony of belonging

    Her memoir’s title captures what India demands of some citizens and denies others—a lifetime of proving loyalty that is never quite accepted.

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  53. Organiser Bharatiya Prakashan (RSS)

    Does the Gandhi-Nehru family have a monopoly on PM ambition? Sharmistha Mukherjee challenges Sonia Gandhi

    NEW DELHI: A mention in the memoirs of Sonia Gandhi, the former Congress president, of former President Pranab Mukherjee’s ambition to become Prime Minister has brought an old episode of Congress politics back into discussion. In her new book, Belonging: A Journey of Love, Sonia Gandhi recounts a…

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Who did not run this

28 newsrooms ran this event. 9 others published in India recently and did not.

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  • Free Press Kashmir Free Press Kashmir
  • Greater Kashmir GK Communications Pvt. Ltd.
  • India Today Living Media India
  • Kashmir Life Kashmir Life
  • Livemint HT Media Ltd.
  • NE Now NE Now
  • Rising Kashmir Rising Kashmir
  • The Economic Times Bennett, Coleman & Co.
  • The South First The South First

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