The Economic Times

Rahul's friends skipped his birthday party after Indira Gandhi's 1977 poll defeat: Sonia

Sonia Gandhi's memoir recounts how Rahul Gandhi's seventh birthday in 1977 turned sombre after all but one of his invited friends stayed away following Indira Gandhi's electoral defeat. She describes how the incident exposed the impact of political hostility on the Gandhi family's children and became an early lesson in human relationships.