SONIA GANDHI – सोनिया गांधी
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राणी सिंग यांच्या लेखणीतून उतरलेलं ‘सोनिया गांधी’ यांचे जीवनचरित्र हे एका अनन्यसाधारण व्यक्तिमत्वाच्या स्त्रीचे हृदयस्पर्शी चित्रण आहे. हे वाचकाला सोनिया गांधी यांच्या जीवनाकडे बघण्याची एक नवी अंतर्दृष्टी प्रदान करते… त्याचबरोबर ही एका वेदनामय जीवनाची, एका कुटुंबाची आणि प्रगतीपथावर वाटचाल करत असलेल्या एका राष्ट्राची कहाणी आहे. – हेन्री किसिंजर, माजी यु.एस. सेक्रेटरी ऑफ स्टेट जगातील काही मोजक्या, सामथ्र्यशाली स्रियांपैकी एक असलेल्या या स्त्रीच्या जीवनाची कवाडे राणी सिंग यांनी वाचकांसाठी खुली केली आहेत. आजवर त्यांच्या जीवनाविषयी लिखित स्वरूपात फारशी माहिती उपलब्ध नव्हती. – जॉन स्नो, इंग्लंड येथील बातमीदार राणी सिंग यांच्या सखोल आणि अभ्यासपूर्ण संशोधनातून हे चरित्र आकारास आले आहे. काही वर्षांपूर्वी अप्रसिद्ध असलेल्या सोनिया गांधींची गणना थोड्याच कालावधीत आशिया खंडातील आणि अर्थात संपूर्ण जगातील निवडक सामथ्र्यशाली स्रियांमध्ये होऊ लागली. सोनियांच्या परिवर्तनाची ही कहाणी राणी सिंग यांनी आपल्या चित्रदर्शी, हृद्य भाषेत कथन केली आहे. प्रसंगी कठोर तरीपण न्याय्य, समीक्षात्मक तसेच परिणामकारक अशा शैलीतील हे लेखन म्हणजे विद्वत्ता आणि शोधपत्रकारिता यांचा अभूतपूर्व मिलाफ आहे. – प्रणय गुप्ते, ‘अल् अरेबिया इंग्लिश ’चे मुख्य संपादक आणि ‘मदर इंडिया’ या इंदिरा गांधी यांच्या राजकीय चरित्राचे लेखक ‘हे चरित्र म्हणजे एका भिडणा-या जीवनकहाणीला सलाम आहे…! पृष्ठभागावरच्या प्रवाहापेक्षा भिन्न दिशेने वाहत असलेला पृष्ठभागाखालचा एक जलप्रवाह आहे… त्याने भारतीय राजकारणात खळबळ निर्माण केली आहे… त्याची ही कहाणी आहे.’ सोनिया गांधींच्या भारतीय राजकारणावर असलेल्या प्रभावाची ही कहाणी आहे. – जेम्स ब्य्रुअर, पत्रकार आणि ‘लॉईड्स लिस्ट’चे संपादक
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SONIA GANDHI`S STORY REPRESENTS THE GREATEST TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY MADE BY ANY WORLD LEADER IN THE LAST FOUR DECADES. CIRCUMSTANCE AND TRAGEDY, RATHER THAN AMBITION, PAVED HER PATH TO POWER. BORN INTO A TRADITIONAL, MIDDLE-CLASS ITALIAN FAMILY, SONIA MET AND FELL IN LOVE WITH RAJIV GANDHI, SON OF FUTURE INDIAN PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI AND GRANDSON OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, WHILE STUDYING ENGLISH IN CAMBRIDGE. CRUELLY TESTED BY THE ASSASSINATIONS OF HER MOTHER-IN-LAW AND OF HER HUSBAND, SONIA GREW INTO A STRONG, AUTHORITATIVE BUT ALWAYS PRIVATE FIGURE, NOW PRESIDENT OF A COALITION RULING OVER A BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD`S LARGEST DEMOCRACY. THROUGH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH MEMBERS OF SONIA`S PARTY, POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND FAMILY FRIENDS, RANI SINGH CASTS NEW LIGHT ON SONIA. IN THE FIRST MAINSTREAM BIOGRAPHY OF THIS INSPIRATIONAL FIGURE, THE AUTHOR’S COMPELLING NARRATIVE RETRACES THE PATH OF THE BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL SONIA GANDHI, EXAMINING WHAT HER LIFE AND LEGACY MEAN FOR INDIA. SONIA MAINO WAS BORN IN A SMALL ITALIAN VILLAGE. HER EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THAT LED HER TO BECOME SONIA GANDHI IS NARRATED IN690~’S SONIA GANDHI: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE, AN INDIAN DESTINY. THIS BOOK BEGINS WITH THE TALE OF THE LOVE THAT BLOSSOMED BETWEEN SONIA AND RAJIV GANDHI WHEN SHE MET HIM IN A RESTAURANT IN CAMBRIDGE, WHILE THEY WERE BOTH PURSUING THEIR STUDIES IN ENGLAND. FAR FROM BEING A SMOOTH ROMANCE, THEY HAD TO ENDURE SEPARATION AND OPPOSITION FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE FAMILIES. HOWEVER, SONIA FINALLY MARRIED RAJIV AND MOVED TO NEW DELHI AT A TIME WHEN INDIRA GANDHI WAS THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA. THE FIRST PART OF THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE PEACEFUL AND ALMOST IDYLLIC LIFE THAT SONIA LED WITH HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. HOWEVER, AS THE BOOK PROGRESSES INTO THE SECOND HALF, THE POLITICAL DYNASTY COMES CRASHING DOWN. WITH THE DEATH OF SANJAY GANDHI IN A PLANE CRASH, RAJIV IS COMPELLED TO TAKE HIS PLACE AS THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER. TRAGICALLY, INDIRA GANDHI IS ASSASSINATED BY HER BODYGUARD AND RAJIV GANDHI, AT THE AGE OF 40, BECOMES THE YOUNGEST PRIME MINISTER IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN POLITICS. HOWEVER, THINGS DO NOT MEET ANY RESOLUTION AND SONIA’S LIFE IS THROWN INTO FURTHER DISARRAY WHEN RAJIV GANDHI IS ASSASSINATED. FAR FROM ESCAPING FROM SUCH TRAVESTIES, SONIA GANDHI ENTERS THE REALM OF POLITICS AND ESTABLISHES THE RAJIV GANDHI FOUNDATION IN MEMORY OF HIS LEGACY. ALL HER ENDEAVORS FROM THEN ON HAVE BEEN TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF THE COUNTRY, FROM EDUCATION TO MILITARY AND POVERTY. IN SONIA GANDHI: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE, AN INDIAN DESTINY, THE AUTHOR STRESSES ON SONIA’S POLITICAL PROWESS AND HER ABILITY TO HANDLE THE MOST ADVERSE SITUATIONS, WHICH HAS TURNED HER INTO A POLITICAL ICON FOR THE YOUNGER INDIAN GENERATIONS.
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