India, Oct. 30 -- Years before writing her autobiography, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', which will hit bookstores on November 10, Sonia Gandhi, the Congress parliamentary party chief, delivered a deeply personal address in The Hague in 2007.

She recalled her early years with the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi's home, her resistance to politics, and the assassinations of Rajiv and Indira.

In what is widely considered her only speech on her personal life, Sonia even compared her life to the paintings of Rembrandt and Van Gogh as she recalled her journey from a middle-class household in northern Italy to India's most important political family.

"It is appropriate that I speak to the theme of my lecture in this fascinati...