India, Nov. 10 -- Sonia Gandhi travelled with two Prime Ministers- Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - and her memoir Belonging is filled with anecdotes about her meeting world leaders.

For instance, she writes about noticing Bill Clinton's roving eye at Delhi's Maurya Sheraton, she talks about Nikolas Sarkozy's "arrogant manner" during his India visit, and about a lighthearted interaction with Princess Diana, who spoke to Gandhi's mother in Italian and called her "Nonna".

"The Monica Lewinsky scandal had subsided a little by then but old habits die hard; at the reception held by Prime Minister Vajpayee in his honour, I noticed him [Clinton] every now and then surreptitiously sizing up the more striking women present," she writes.

During ...