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A fictionalized account of Sonia Gandhi`s life by Spanish author Javier Moro which could not be published in India after Congress objected to its contents a few years ago has finally hit book stores in the country.The Red Sari has now been published in India. Get your copy!, said Roli Book`s editorial director Priya Kapoor in a Tweet. The book, first published in Spanish with the title `El Sari Rojo` in 2008, had created a controversy with the Congress chief`s lawyers then describing it as containing `untruths, half truths, falsehoods and defamatory statements` and served Moro with a legal notice in 2010. The 455-page book, priced at Rs 395, is an `Indianised` version of the original work. The book is about Sonia 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. `The Red Sari` tells the story of an extraordinary woman whose dreams of home, hearth and anonymous living were struck down by the hands of fate, said the book`s blurb. 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.
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