''The Red Sari'' (El sari rojo), which is a dramatized biography of the life of
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi ('' née'' Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independ ...
, originally written in
Spanish
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Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
by
Javier Moro and published in October 2008 in Spain.
It ran into some controversy in India.
's Spanish and Italian publishers received emails from
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
lawyers and spokesperson
Abhishek Singhvi with demands to withdraw the book from stores. Singhvi stated that book distorted facts and misinterpreted details.
[ The author always denied that the book is malicious.][
The book tells the story of the Gandhi family through the eyes of Sonia Gandhi. Abhishek Singhvi claimed that the book violated a person's privacy for monetary gain.]
References
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2015 non-fiction books
Books about politics of India
21st-century Indian books