Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir Recalls the Delhi Seen in Chashme Buddoor

Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, <b>Belonging: A Journey of Love</b>, revisits Delhi through personal memories, with politics in the background. Released on November 10, the book opens its account of the capital with Gandhi’s arrival at 5:15 am on January 13, 1968, as a young Italian woman who had met Rajiv Gandhi in Cambridge. The cityscape in the memoir recalls the Delhi shown in Sai Paranjpye’s 1980 film <b>Chashme Buddoor</b>: quiet roads, ruins at the city’s edge and ice cream at India Gate. Paranjpye described the film as a “Dilli darshan.”.