Sonia Book Controversy

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid had landed in controversy over his new book on Ayodhya. A Delhi-based lawyer has filed a complaint against him, accusing the 68-year-old of comparing "Hindutva" with radical Islamic terror groups.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's former media adviser Sanjaya Baru on Friday maintained that "no one has questioned facts" in his controversial new book that portrays the prime minister's position as being undermined by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The new controversial book by Sanjaya Baru, a former aide to the Prime Minister, has been described as "nothing but a stab in the back... a huge betrayal of trust" by Dr Manmohan Singh's daughter, Upinder Singh.

Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has come out with a forthright account of his years in Rashtrapati Bhavan in which he discloses "behind-the-scene" details of his meetings with Sonia Gandhi after 2004 Lok Sabha elections and with Manmohan Singh after the Supreme Court verdict on the dissolution of Bihar assembly. "Turning Points", billed as a se...

The controversy over Spanish writer Javier Moro's book 'The Red Saree', a fictionalised account of the life of Sonia Gandhi, is getting murkier with the author threatening to sue her counsel Abhishek Singhvi, who in turn terms Moro's charges as comic if not tragic.The book, which was first published in Spanish with a title 'El Sari Rojo' in 2008 an...

Indian publishing house Roli Books has confirmed that it will go ahead with the release of a book positioned as a "fictional biography" on Congress President Sonia Gandhi. The book is slated for release in India in the next three to four months.Titled 'The Red Sari' (a reference to Gandhi's wedding day attire), the book has sold 300,000 copies in S...

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid had landed in controversy over his new book on Ayodhya. A Delhi-based lawyer has filed a complaint against him, accusing the 68-year-old of comparing "Hindutva" with radical Islamic terror groups.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's former media adviser Sanjaya Baru on Friday maintained that "no one has questioned facts" in his controversial new book that portrays the prime minister's position as being undermined by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The new controversial book by Sanjaya Baru, a former aide to the Prime Minister, has been described as "nothing but a stab in the back... a huge betrayal of trust" by Dr Manmohan Singh's daughter, Upinder Singh.

Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has come out with a forthright account of his years in Rashtrapati Bhavan in which he discloses "behind-the-scene" details of his meetings with Sonia Gandhi after 2004 Lok Sabha elections and with Manmohan Singh after the Supreme Court verdict on the dissolution of Bihar assembly. "Turning Points", billed as a se...

The controversy over Spanish writer Javier Moro's book 'The Red Saree', a fictionalised account of the life of Sonia Gandhi, is getting murkier with the author threatening to sue her counsel Abhishek Singhvi, who in turn terms Moro's charges as comic if not tragic.The book, which was first published in Spanish with a title 'El Sari Rojo' in 2008 an...

Indian publishing house Roli Books has confirmed that it will go ahead with the release of a book positioned as a "fictional biography" on Congress President Sonia Gandhi. The book is slated for release in India in the next three to four months.Titled 'The Red Sari' (a reference to Gandhi's wedding day attire), the book has sold 300,000 copies in S...