India, Aug. 29 -- A day after it was reported that Penguin Random House India will not publish Sonia Gandhi's memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love due to disagreements over editorial changes, the publisher on Friday posted on X, "Penguin Random House India is not the publisher of Belonging in India. Any suggestion that Penguin Random House India decided not to publish Belonging because the author declined editorial changes does not accurately reflect the circumstances."

The clarifications days after American publisher Alfred A Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced that memoir would release on November 10.

"As a publisher, it is both our prerogative and our responsibility to fact-check and provide authors with recommendatio...