{"id":36553,"date":"2015-01-17T09:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T03:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=36553"},"modified":"2015-01-17T09:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T03:57:53","slug":"controversial-book-sonia-gandhi-red-sari-now-sale-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/controversial-book-sonia-gandhi-red-sari-now-sale-india","title":{"rendered":"Controversial book on Sonia Gandhi &#8216;The Red Sari&#8217; now out for sale in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36554\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/controversial-book-sonia-gandhi-red-sari-now-sale-india\/the_red_sari\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?fit=400%2C622&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,622\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"the_red_sari\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?fit=96%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?fit=160%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-36554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari-160x250.jpg?resize=160%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the_red_sari\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?resize=160%2C250&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?resize=96%2C150&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/the_red_sari.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>A fictionalized account of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sonia Gandhi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonia_Gandhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sonia Gandhi<\/a>&#8216;s life by Spanish author Javier Moro which could not be published in India after Congress objected to its contents a few years ago has finally hit book stores in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Red Sari has now been published in India. Get your copy!&#8221; tweeted Roli Book&#8217;s editorial director <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Priya Kapoor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priya_Kapoor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Priya Kapoor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book, first published in Spanish with the title &#8216;El Sari Rojo&#8217; in 2008, had created a controversy with the Congress chief&#8217;s lawyers then describing it as containing &#8220;untruths, half truths, falsehoods and defamatory statements&#8221; and serving Moro with a legal notice in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publishers, the 455-page book, priced at Rs 395, is an &#8220;Indianised version&#8221; of the original work.<\/p>\n<p>Moro, whose earlier book &#8220;Pasion India&#8221; has been translated into 17 languages, traces the journey of Sonia with information sourced from close friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From her idyllic childhood to her passionate love affair and from her days as a docile daughter-in-law to her current status of being the only Indian politician to have refused prime ministership, &#8216;The Red Sari&#8217; tells the story of an extraordinary woman whose dreams of home, hearth and anonymous living were struck down by the hands of fate,&#8221; the book&#8217;s blurb says.<\/p>\n<p>The book examines the lives of the Nehru-Gandhi family and is set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh war, the Emergency, Operation Blue Star and other events that have shaped modern Indian history.<br \/>\n-PTI\u00a0|\u00a0January 15, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fictionalized account of Sonia Gandhi&#8216;s life by Spanish author Javier Moro which could not be published in India after Congress objected to its contents a few years ago has finally hit book stores in the country. &#8220;The Red Sari has now been published in India. 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