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CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi has described Rajiv Gandhi as a very good-looking and gentle person and shared her memories of their life together as she made her debut on social media platform X.
She put out a video regarding her upcoming book — Belonging: A Journey of Love — in which she shares her journey from her younger days till now. The book will be launched on November 10.
Gandhi also shared a nearly two-minute-long video on X as well as on Instagram, in which she recalled how she met her husband Rajiv Gandhi in Cambridge and showed their pictures and that of the restaurant where they first met.
‘In a small Greek restaurant in Cambridge my journey of love began. Rajiv and I created a world filled with love, laughter and memories. On 10th November, I share that world with you,’ she said in her first post on X.
In a small Greek restaurant in Cambridge my journey of love began.
Rajiv and I created a world filled with love, laughter and memories. On 10th November, I share that world with you. https://t.co/zvN5Rqqstf
— Sonia Gandhi (@SoniaGandhi) October 24, 2026
Going through photographs in the video, the Congress parliamentary party chairperson described Rajiv Gandhi as a very good-looking and gentle person.
Asked about what it was like falling in love with Rajiv Gandhi, she said, “Food in England in those days was awful. In those days, you didn’t have so many restaurants, you know, like you have today.”
“And so, I was constantly looking for a place where I could find some food which was closer to my kind of food — Italian food in that case.
“And then, we discovered this place (Varsity Restaurant). It was a Greek restaurant where many European students, but also Indian students, used to go for their meals. And that is where I met Rajiv in that very restaurant,” the former Congress chief said.
“When I first met him, I felt almost immediately that, you know, he was someone I would really love to be with. And, of course, I learned that it was the same for him,” Gandhi recalled in the video.
She said that a common friend had introduced her to the former prime minister.
Sonia Gandhi, Earlier joined Instagram, where she shared a message introducing her forthcoming memoir and expressing gratitude for being able to present its first look to readers.
“Hello everyone, I’m truly grateful to share this moment with you all: the first look of Belonging: A Journey of Love. It is a story of love, duty, loss, and finding a place to belong. I look forward to sharing it with you,” Sonia Gandhi wrote in her first Instagram post while sharing the first look of the book.
