SONIA GANDHI’S BELONGING: PRIVATE GRIEF, POLITICAL MEMORY AND A NATION DIVIDED

SONIA GANDHI’S BELONGING: PRIVATE GRIEF, POLITICAL MEMORY AND A NATION DIVIDED: Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, Belonging, recounts her personal losses, the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the isolation of power and her decision to lead the Congress. It reflects on the Emergency, political polarisation, her limited interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and concerns about press freedom. Disputes over publisher Penguin’s withdrawal—described differently by Gandhi and