NEW DELHI: So, who does Sonia Gandhi’s controversial memoir ‘Belonging’ belong to? HarperCollins India has stepped in to publish the Congress chief’s memoir, ending weeks of uncertainty over who would carry the home version after Penguin Random Home India (PRHI) exited the deal over some modifications to the textual content. The guide will hit Indian cabinets on November 10, 2026 — the identical day as its worldwide launch.Billed as some of the anticipated political memoirs lately, Belonging is described as a private account of affection, identification, responsibility and belonging, providing an insider’s perspective on India’s political journey via Gandhi’s personal eyes.The HarperCollins announcement comes on the heels of a public controversy over PRHI’s departure from the undertaking, which Congress leaders have framed as an act of political censorship. Social gathering chief Ashok Gehlot alleged that stress had been exerted on Penguin to edit out sections coping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the RSS, and China’s occupation of Indian territory throughout Modi’s tenure, calling the episode a “homicide of democracy.
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“Penguin pushed again on that framing, sustaining that it retained the correct to fact-check manuscripts and counsel edits to authors, and stated it remained open to publishing the guide. The corporate had earlier this 12 months additionally halted distribution of cartoonist Joe Sacco’s The As soon as and Future Riot, concerning the Muzaffarnagar riots — a call critics have pointed to as a part of a sample.Including a layer of intrigue to the row was the truth that Alfred A. Knopf, the memoir’s American writer, is itself a Penguin Random Home imprint — elevating the query, as Gehlot put it, of why a model cleared for world launch would wish alteration for Indian readers. “What’s the motive, or what stress is there that what’s being revealed internationally can’t be revealed in India?” he requested.
