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

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.
Why it matters
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.
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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