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Review | Sonia Gandhi’s Belonging: A memoir of revelation and reticence

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Sandeep Phukan
Review | Sonia Gandhi’s Belonging: A memoir of revelation and reticence
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Sonia Gandhi's new memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love,' offers a personal perspective on her life and the history of the Nehru-Gandhi family. The book covers major political events like the 1975 Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots through her personal lens.

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As a central figure in Indian politics, Gandhi's personal account provides historical insight into the internal dynamics of the Congress party and modern Indian history.

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Sonia Gandhi has been an intensely private person and, arguably, one of the most consequential politicians of contemporary India. When she decides to share her personal account in Belonging: A Journey of Love, with politics largely in the background, or as she describes it, a “kind of framework”, it is bound to generate curiosity among readers. https://www.thehindu.com/books/excerpt-sonia-gandhi-memoir-belonging-family-duty-congress-party/article71655995.ece The book offers not only a window into the world of the Nehru-Gandhi family, which shaped many decades of independent India, but also an understanding of the landmark events that helped define the nation’s contemporary history.

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