Sonia Gandhi's New Memoir, "Belonging: A Journey of Love"

Sonia Gandhi has a new memoir, titled "Belonging: A Journey of Love," according to BBC News.

Gandhi headed India's Congress party, and her life has been closely tied to one of the country's best-known political families. She first met Rajiv Gandhi in England when she was 19. The family's political history is marked by violence. Prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The assassination was carried out in retaliation for the Indian army's storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar earlier that year, BBC News reported.

Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as prime minister that same evening. He was assassinated in 1991.

Sonia Gandhi later took charge of the Congress party and led it through two general election victories. Her memoir's title, "Belonging," points to the question of identity and place that has run through her public life, though the title alone does not show how the book approaches it.

Rahul Gandhi, who also has a place in the family's political story, graduated from Cambridge in 1995.