The digital theater of Indian politics has just witnessed another carefully choreographed performance. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s debut on Instagram, staged alongside the reveal of her memoir Belonging, is being treated by her handlers and partymen as a historic milestone. Yet, this curated descent into the algorithmic playground of the youth cannot mask the profound decay of a political party that remains stubbornly tethered to the principle of hereditary entitlement. Fo

There is something almost literary about the Congress’s reaction to Sonia Gandhi’s memoir not being published in India by Penguin Random House. The episode follows a familiar script. Each time something happens where the facts are inconvenient for the Congress and its controlling dynasty, the party brass discovers a villain in Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP. Sonia Gandhi’s Belonging: A Journey of Love is scheduled for international release next month through Alfred A. Knopf