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‘The demons raped her again and again’, Sonia recalls horrors of 2002 Gujarat riots in memoir

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‘The demons raped her again and again’, Sonia recalls horrors of 2002 Gujarat riots in memoir

New Delhi Congress leader Sonia Gandhi encountered a “most wrenching moment” in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots when a father held up the slumped figure of his young daughter, who had been sexually assaulted and cried to her for help, leaving her shattered and gripped with horror. https://www.thehindu.com/topic/indian-national-congress/ Ms.

Gandhi was visiting a riot-ravaged Ahmedabad with an all-party delegation and finding relief camps “crowded by traumatised men, women, and children squatting in a makeshift hall”, she says in her memoir “Belonging: A Journey of Love”. Sonia Gandhi’s memoir: How a love story grew into a deep belonging to India Sonia Gandhi’s memoir: How a love story grew into a deep belonging to India Sonia Gandhi’s much-awaited Belonging is a personal memoir, with politics providing the background or “a kind of framework,” as she puts it in the book Sonia Gandhi’s Belonging: A Journey of Love Sonia Gandhi’s memoir: How a love story grew into a deep belonging to India storyline 1 “The atmosphere was still chilling.