Sonia Gandhi’s memoir to revisit love, loss and her decision to decline India’s top job

Congress chief and Rajya Sabha Member Sonia Gandhi has a memoir popping out this fall during which she’s going to replicate on the promise and the tragedy of marrying into India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty and on her personal profession in authorities.

Publishing home Alfred A. Knopf introduced on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) that Ms. Gandhi’s “Belonging: A Journey of Love” shall be printed on November 10.

“A lot has been written about my household, however few narratives had been in a position to attain into the reality of their motivations, their actions and even their very human failings,” Ms. Gandhi mentioned in an announcement issued via Knopf. “In some ways, this ebook is a homage to their humanness. My story additionally provides readers a singular perspective of the social and political modifications I’ve witnessed for six many years within the lovely nation of my belonging.”

Ms. Gandhi, 79, is a local of Italy who was learning in Cambridge, England, when she met fellow scholar and future husband Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and son of India’s first feminine Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

In Belonging, she writes of her life being upended when her mother-in-law was assassinated in 1984 and succeeded by Rajiv Gandhi, who was additionally murdered seven years later. She too would finally enter politics and turn out to be the longest-serving president of the Indian Nationwide Congress Social gathering whereas additionally turning down her social gathering’s supply to turn out to be Prime Minister. Her social gathering misplaced energy to Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) in 2014.

“It was heartbreak and loss that threw me into the general public world of politics. Up until then I had guarded my privateness fiercely,” she mentioned in her assertion.

“Writing about my life didn’t come simply to me. It meant opening myself up, sharing moments and experiences I had all the time held deep inside,” she mentioned. “But as I step by step eliminated myself from the political sphere and appeared again in any respect I had seen, the thread of affection and loyalty that wove via my story started to outline itself, from the simplicity of my childhood in small-town Italy, to the complexity of my years in India because the spouse of Rajiv Gandhi and the daughter-in-law of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.”