Penguin drops Sonia Gandhi’s memoir after she rejected ‘changes, deletions’
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Penguin drops Sonia Gandhi’s memoir after she rejected ‘changes, deletions’
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The release, scheduled for November 10, was first announced by US-based Alfred A Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House. Knopf had added that the first print run for the title would be 100,000 copies. 4 min readNew DelhiAug 28, 2026 03:22 PM IST First published on: Aug 28, 2026 at 06:29 AM IST PENGUIN Random House India (PRHI), expected to publish ‘Belonging: a Journey of Love,’ the much-anticipated memoirs of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, in India, will not do so, The Indian Express has learnt. Sources said this was precipitated by certain “editorial changes and deletions” that Penguin Random House India wanted in “a part of the manuscript” which was turned down by the author.