Sonia Gandhi on love, loss and the convulsive history of Modern India
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The astonishing story of Sonia Gandhi, the young woman from a middle-class Italian family who married into the Nehru-Gandhi ...
NEW DELHI — The astonishing story of Sonia Gandhi, the young woman from a middle-class Italian family who married into the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, lived through unspeakable tragedy and nearly became prime minister of India, reached a crescendo in May 2004 in her heavily fortified home in New Delhi.“It took place in this very room,” she said in an interview last week in her home office, once that of her late husband, Rajiv Gandhi.His tricolor Congress Party shawl still hung over his desk chair in the corner, where it has been since his assassination in 1991, when he was campaigning to be prime minister a second time.
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