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Noticed Bill Clinton surreptitiously sizing up more striking women at reception: Sonia

Noticed Bill Clinton surreptitiously sizing up more striking women at reception: Sonia

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Sonia Gandhi, in her tell‑all memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, says she has never seen the photograph of Rajiv Gandhi’s remains taken after the LTTE suicide bombing that killed him more than three decades ago. The book, described as a personal and political account, also recounts her early disagreements with Maneka Gandhi and the growing political divisions that followed Sanjay Gandhi’s death.

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  • left · 1 outlet

    In her new memoir Belonging, Sonia Gandhi shares vivid anecdotes of Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, and Nicolas Sarkozy during their visits to India.

    — Mathrubhumi English

  • center · 2 outlets

    She writes about noticing Bill Clinton’s roving eye at Delhi’s Maurya Sheraton, she talks about Nikolas Sarkozy’s “arrogant manner” during his India visit.

    — Hindustan Times

  • right · 2 outlets

    "Old habits die hard," said veteran Congress leader Sonia Gandhi as she recalled Bill Clinton's India visit in 2000, highlighting that even though the Monica Lewinsky scandal had subsided by then, the former US President every now and then "surreptitiously sizing up the more striking women" at a…

    — India TV

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In her new memoir Belonging, Sonia Gandhi shares vivid anecdotes of Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, and Nicolas Sarkozy during their visits to India.

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  2. Mathrubhumi English Center-Left Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Current article

    Noticed Bill Clinton surreptitiously sizing up more striking women at reception: Sonia

    In her new memoir Belonging, Sonia Gandhi shares vivid anecdotes of Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, and Nicolas Sarkozy during their visits to India.

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  8. The Tribune Center The Tribune Trust

    Sonia Gandhi has not seen ‘horrific’ photo of Rajiv’s remains taken after assassination: Book

    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 Love’, former…

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  10. Orissa Post Center Eastern Media Ltd (Sambad Group)

    Sonia Gandhi reveals Rahul, Priyanka shielded her from Rajiv’s remains photo

    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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  12. Deccan Herald Center-Left The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd.

    What's there to be 'shocked' about; is it a crime to be ambitious: Ex-Prez Pranab Mukherjee's daughter to Sonia Gandhi

    New Delhi: Former President Pranab Mukherjee 's daughter, Sharmistha Mukherjee, on Tuesday questioned why Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was "shocked" by her father's ambition to become Prime Minister, stressing that he had earned his position through decades of hard work and not by "dynastic…

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  19. The New Indian Express Center Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.

    The boy before Rahul: Sonia Gandhi on her day-old child’s death

    NEW DELHI: One fine morning in September 1968, the news of Sonia Gandhi’s pregnancy sent waves of happiness around the Gandhi household. The otherwise stern expressions of Indira Gandhi melted to kiss and hug the to-be mother and exclaim, “One big baby having another baby!” But it was not to be…

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