{"id":34964,"date":"2026-08-28T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/penguin-india-rejects-sonia-gandhi-memoir\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:41:49","slug":"penguin-india-rejects-sonia-gandhi-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/penguin-india-rejects-sonia-gandhi-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin India Rejects Sonia Gandhi Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Penguin Random House India (PRHI) will not publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi\u2019s memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, in India. The Indian Express has learnt this.<\/p>\n

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According to The Indian Express, PRHI had sought \u201ceditorial changes and the removal of certain sections\u201d from the book. However, the authors rejected the request.<\/p>\n

Following Penguin India\u2019s exit from the project, HarperCollins may take over the publication of the book in India.<\/p>\n

The book was earlier scheduled to be published on November 10. In it, Sonia Gandhi will write about her political journey and her decision not to accept the post of Prime Minister in 2004.<\/p>\n

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The memoir also covers her marriage into the Nehru-Gandhi family and how her life changed following the assassinations of members of the family.<\/p>\n

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First print run was to be 1 lakh copies<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book\u2019s US publisher Knopf had earlier said that the first print run would be 1 lakh copies. The Indian Express sent questions to Knopf and Sonia Gandhi\u2019s agent, David Godwin, seeking their response, but neither commented.<\/p>\n

Penguin Random House India CEO Gaurav Shrinagesh was also asked about the \u201cchanges and removal of sections\u201d sought in Sonia Gandhi\u2019s manuscript. He too was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n

Sonia Gandhi said a lot had already been written about the family<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sonia Gandhi has previously written and edited other books. However, according to people who worked on this book, it is the most personal and detailed account of her life. A statement by Sonia Gandhi was also included in Knopf\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

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Penguin had earlier been in the news over two books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, PRHI issued a statement saying it had not \u201cprinted\u201d former Army chief General MM Naravane\u2019s memoir Four Stars of Destiny<\/em>. However, Rahul Gandhi had displayed a hard copy of the book in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Some excerpts from Naravane\u2019s book were also published in the media. These included his account of the India-China clashes in Galwan and the Agnipath scheme.<\/p>\n

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Penguin Random House India (PRHI) will not publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi\u2019s memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, in India. The Indian Express has learnt this. According to The Indian Express, PRHI had sought \u201ceditorial changes and the removal of certain sections\u201d from the book. However, the authors rejected the request. Following Penguin India\u2019s exit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29557,31622,31621,31620,31625,31623,27040,31624],"class_list":["post-34964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-belonging-a-journey-of-love","tag-book-controversy","tag-congress-memoir","tag-penguin-india","tag-prhi","tag-publishing-news","tag-sonia-gandhi","tag-sonia-gandhi-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}