Goa, Nov. 10 -- Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's newly launched memoir, Belonging: A Journey Of Love, offers an intimate look at the private personalities of major global figures, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the late Princess Diana. Released in New Delhi, the autobiography balances high-stakes geopolitical history with candid, unvarnished human observations from her decades near the center of Indian political life.

During Bill Clinton's high-profile 2000 visit to India-which took place shortly after the Monica Lewinsky scandal had receded from headlines-Gandhi noted that while the U.S. President was friendly and keen to share his views on Kashmir as a "nuclear flashpoint," his ...