For decades, Sonia Gandhi has remained an intensely private figure at the heart of one of India’s most public families, her life shaped by love, extraordinary privilege, devastating loss and the weight of public expectation. In Belonging: A Journey of Love , published by HarperCollins India, she steps out from behind the many narratives others have constructed around her to tell her own story. It is a journey that begins far from India, in a small Italian town, and culminates in New Delhi, India’s power centre. It is also the story of the tragedies that would irrevocably alter the course of her life and plunge her into an unexpected political life. In this exclusive excerpt to The Indian Express , Gandhi writes of that defining moment when she resisted her party’s call to become the Prime Minister and what shaped her decision:
The cover of Sonia Gandhi’s upcoming book Belonging.
S ome months before the election, my children and I had discussed the issue of my possible prime ministership.…
