Sonia Gandhi's Belonging Reveals A Life Shaped By Love, Loss and India (Picture Credit – Amazon)
\n\nIn a black-and-white photograph accompanying the promotion of 'Belonging', Rajiv Gandhi sits with his young children while Sonia Gandhi helps one of them look through a book. It is a familiar family scene, far removed from the ceremonial photographs and political speeches through which the country has come to know her. Yet the knowledge of what followed gives that quiet moment an extraordinary poignancy.
\n\nHer forthcoming memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', promises to return to those years before private affection and public history became inseparable. Scheduled for publication in India by HarperCollins on 10 November 2026, it offers Sonia Gandhi's account of a life shaped as much by marriage, motherhood and bereavement as by power.
\n\nA Love Story That Crossed Continents
\n\nThe story begins in Cambridge in 1965, when Sonia Maino, a young Italian student, met Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She moved to India in 1968 to marry him, beginning a life whose cultural and political dimensions she could scarcely have anticipated.
\n\nBelonging Reflects Sonia Gandhi's Journey Through Love, Loss And Home
\n\nThe promotional photographs capture…
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