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Center Owned by The Avenue MailIndira Gandhi’s anger made me shiver: Sonia Gandhi
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Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love covers her decision to decline the prime‑ministerial post in 2004, recounts the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, the 1991 assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi and her own battle with cancer. The book also details former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s fear that resigning in 1975 would split the Congress and empower the RSS, and mentions Sanjay Gandhi’s excesses during the Emergency. Sonia says she has never seen a photograph of Rajiv’s remains. The BJP has criticised the memoir as a white‑wash, with a spokesperson suggesting the title should have been “Whitewashing, not Belonging.”
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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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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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Sonia Gandhi’s new memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, reveals former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s strict household discipline. HarperCollins India published the 544-page book, which details Sonia’s journey from post-war Italy into the famous Nehru-Gandhi political family. Strict Punishments and…
