Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said her upcoming memoir is not a political book but a personal one, and asserted that she wanted to portray her family honestly, as people she knew and loved.
“For most of my life, I kept my inner world to myself. Even after grief pulled me into politics, I held on to whatever privacy I could, and writing openly about my life felt almost unthinkable. “This is not a political book. It is a personal one. Much has been written about my family, but rarely with real insight into who they were, their motivations, their struggles, their very human flaws. “I also hoped to share what I witnessed over more than five decades in India.
Writing in The Hindu ahead of the release of her book ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’, Gandhi said it is her account of the place she came to call home. Only after stepping back from the daily churn of public life could I see my own story clearly,” Gandhi said. Gandhi said what remained to sustain her was her love for her husband and for India, the country where she felt she truly belonged. It also came with a sense of duty strong enough to lead her into public life, against every instinct she had, Gandhi said. I wanted to portray them honestly, as people I knew and loved,” the former Congress president said. I watched a country transform, at first from the margins and later from its very centre,” she said.
The memoir also delves into political events surrounding the Congress-led alliance’s victory in the 2004 elections, when Sonia Gandhi declined to become prime minister and instead led the party and its alliance, which governed India for a decade.
