Penguin Random Home India out. HarperCollins in. Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’, has discovered a brand new writer for distributing the ebook within the Indian territory.
“HarperCollins India will publish Belonging: A Journey of Love by Sonia Gandhi. The long-awaited memoir can be printed in India on 10 November 2026. Some of the anticipated political memoirs of our time, Belonging is a dramatic and deeply private story of affection, id, responsibility and belonging, and presents a uncommon insider’s view of India’s journey,” the writer posted on X on Friday midday.
HarperCollins India will publish Belonging: A Journey of Love by Sonia Gandhi. The long-awaited memoir can be printed in India on 10 November 2026.
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— HarperCollins (@HarperCollinsIN) September 4, 2026
Final week, Penguin Random House India said it is not the publisher of Sonia Gandhi’s memoir. The assertion got here amid stories that the writer backed out after Sonia Gandhi refused “editorial adjustments” to the manuscript. The writer although denied any such motive behind the transfer.
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“Penguin Random Home India shouldn’t be the writer of Belonging in India. Any suggestion that Penguin Random Home India determined to not publish Belonging as a result of the creator declined editorial adjustments doesn’t precisely replicate the circumstances,” the corporate mentioned in a press release final week.
The writer mentioned that despite the fact that they had been “keen and eager to publish the ebook”, it’s their “prerogative and duty to truth test authors and supply suggestions” as a traditional a part of the publishing course of.
“All through the related discussions, Penguin Random Home India’s place was that we remained keen and eager to publish the ebook. We won’t remark additional on confidential discussions with the creator,” the assertion added.
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Penguin Random Home India issued one other assertion Monday, sustaining that there was no exterior strain behind its resolution to not publish Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, including there was an deadlock over “a selected problem” throughout discussions on the memoir.
The writer did not disclose the contentious problem, citing “settlement and creator confidentiality”.
The ebook’s India launch has been a matter of a lot hypothesis since Alfred A Knopf’s announcement, a large in American publishing and an imprint of Penguin Random Home, that the memoir can be launched on November 10.
“A lot has been written about my household, however few narratives had been capable of attain into the reality of their motivations, their actions and even their very human failings,” Sonia Gandhi mentioned in a press release issued by Knopf. “In some ways, this ebook is a homage to their humanness. My story additionally presents readers a singular perspective of the social and political adjustments I’ve witnessed for six many years within the lovely nation of my belonging.”
In “Belonging,” 79-year-old Sonia Gandhi writes of her life being upended when her mother-in-law is assassinated in 1984 and succeeded by Rajiv Gandhi who seven years later was additionally murdered.
Sonia Gandhi ultimately entered politics and have become the longest-serving president of the Congress whereas additionally turning down her social gathering’s supply to grow to be prime minister. Her social gathering misplaced energy to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 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.
