Wednesday, 11 November 2026 Mostly clearNew Delhi 25° New DelhiLondonNew YorkDubaiTokyo
INDEPENDENT THINKING.
SHARED UNDERSTANDING.International edition · Correspondents across India and around the world
RationalTimes●
A little less noise.
A little more perspective. Join our media house
BREAKING
VerifiedNCDEX to launch first-ever PRA-based steel scrap futures VerifiedFour-year-old girl rescued at Salem railway station, reunited with mother VerifiedSingapore Airlines' interim profit nearly halves on higher fuel costs VerifiedTight security as thousands gather for far-right Polish march VerifiedKeep Kidney Care Mode On During the Winter Season ClimateCOP31 climate talks open in Antalya, Türkiye, on 9 November USAmericans vote in the midterm elections on 3 November TechnologyNorth Korea-linked hackers steal about $6.4 billion from Binance in the biggest crypto theft on record, analysts say WorldSpain mourns after a high-speed train ploughs into a stationary train near Toledo, killing at least 68 WorldIsrael’s election ends without a clear winner as exit polls leave both blocs short of a majority WorldSaudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missiles and drones as Egypt’s parliament backs military support PoliticsLula wins Brazil’s presidential runoff as Flávio Bolsonaro concedes
Verified · 14 outletsIndia

Sonia Gandhi memoir row: Why BJP calls 'Belonging' a whitewashing of Emergency, Congress's past

Headline via DNA · first report 9 Nov, 20:54 IST, latest 11 Nov, 17:11 IST

India Gate, New Delhi
Representational image · India Gate, New Delhi · Madrishh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

What we know

14 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from India Today at 9 Nov, 20:54 IST; the latest is from Free Press Journal at 11 Nov, 17:11 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

StatusVerified
Reported by14 news organisations
First report9 Nov, 20:54 IST
Latest report11 Nov, 17:11 IST
DeskIndia

What the reports sayEach newsroom’s own summary of its report, from its feed

The motive of the book appears to be "sugar-coating the historical wrongs perpetrated" by the Nehru-Gandhi family, BJP's national spokesperson C R Kesavan said
"The Congress regime at the Centre for nearly 55 years inflicted unfathomable damage and scars on Indian polity and our democracy," BJP national spokesperson CR Kesavan said
The BJP has criticised Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, accusing her of attempting to justify and whitewash the Emergency era. The ruling party said the book seeks to soften the historical actions of the Nehru-Gandhi family despite Gandhi…
The comments from the ruling party came on the day Sonia Gandhi’s memoir was released, in which she weighed in on the Emergency imposed in the country in 1975 and called it a mistake
Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' has triggered a BJP-Congress row. Here's what she wrote about the Emergency and why BJP leader C R Kesavan criticised the book.
BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan criticized Sonia Gandhi's memoir, arguing it attempts to whitewash the historical mistakes of the Congress party. He highlighted her emotional responses to key incidents while questioning her silence on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and…

Quoted from the newsrooms’ own feeds, with their names and links. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details.

About Uttar Pradesh IndiaAsiaCultureDefence & SecurityPolitics 9 Nov 2026

The reports28 reports

Headlines belong to the news organisations named; each links to their own report. We group reports automatically by their key words, so now and then two different stories can be grouped together, or one story split in two. Tell us about a mistake

Read nextThe biggest stories right now