Sonia Gandhi has made a splash with her social media debut ahead of the release of her forthcoming book, ”Belonging: A Journey of Love” . For the first time, the 80-year-old Congress leader took to Instagram , X, and Facebook to share tidbits from her autobiography to get people to pick it up when it is launched on November 10, predicting that the book would create a “tamasha”.

The book has already aroused widespread interest nationally and in international circles. This is not surprising, for it is penned by a woman, Italian-born, who married into the first family of India in 1968. She made India her home and, for almost six decades, witnessed at close quarters some of the most dramatic events unfold, including the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. Seven years earlier, still dressed in her night clothes, she had rushed the blood-splattered body of her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, to the hospital.

In 2012, Forbes magazine ranked Sonia as the sixth-most powerful woman in the world.…