A reading of Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, ‘Belonging: A Journey Of Love’ , makes evident some reasons for the late-stage change of publishers for the title. As first reported by The Indian Express on August 28, 2026, the publisher changed from Penguin Random House (PRH) to HarperCollins due to “changes and deletions” requested by the author.

While PRH later issued a statement saying that such “discussions” were “normal” and they “remained willing and keen to publish the book”, Sonia Gandhi herself has, in a pre-publication interview with The Guardian of London, revealed that it was PRH which had dropped out of the publishing agreement.…