Bookstores report strong early sales of Sonia Gandhi’s memoir

When her Amazon pre-order of Sonia Gandhi’s Belonging: A Journey of Love was delayed, one X user turned to a quick-commerce app. The book reached her in 19 minutes, at ₹450 off. "#blinkit for the win because my #amazon pre-order was super delayed! Like what’s the point of pre-ordering?" she posted. "I'm sure I’m finishing this in a day.” At Khan Market’s Faqir Chand bookstore, the same book was moving at full price. “On the first day we had ordered about 500 copies, and we sold over 100 copies on the very first day,” said Abhinav Bamhi, 28, whose family owns the store. Seeing the response, the store ordered 350 more. Two days after its November 10 release, curiosity about the memoir—which HarperCollins published in India after Penguin Random House India stepped away from the project—remains high, with readers still seeking copies, whether through pirated PDFs or bookstores.