HarperCollins to publish Sonia Gandhi’s memoir ‘Belonging’

HarperCollins India introduced on Friday (September 4, 2026) that it’ll publish Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s ebook, Belonging: A Journey of Love, on November 10, 2026. This comes days after Penguin Random House India decided not to publish the ebook over what it known as a “specific challenge”.

HarperCollins India introduced that the “stunning, richly instructed memoir seamlessly weaves the non-public with the political to inform a riveting story.” It stated that the “as soon as famously reticent Sonia Gandhi opens up with heat and candour to inform the story of her outstanding life, from her childhood in post-war Veneto; to the romance that introduced her to India; to the shattering losses that reshaped not solely her personal future but additionally that of her adopted dwelling.”

On August 18, the New York Metropolis-based Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random Home, had introduced that Ms. Gandhi’s memoir will probably be printed on November 10. Knopf had additionally stated that the primary print run for the title can be 1,00,000 copies.

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Final week, Penguin Random Home India reportedly backed out of publishing the memoir after disagreements over editorial adjustments. The publishing home put out a press release saying, “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. As a writer, it’s each our prerogative and our duty to fact-check and supply authors with suggestions which are in the most effective pursuits of their books.” It stated it remained eager to publish the memoir.

Nonetheless, trade sources stated that the writer and creator did have variations over content material associated to her impressions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from official conferences, his dealing with of India-China ties, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its actions.