ITALY greeted Mrs Sonia Gandhi's triumph with a mixture of pride and apprehension as her family rejoiced in the return of India's political dynasty and recalled its tragic past.
Born Sonia Maino, she had married the late Rajiv Gandhi in 1968.
As the dust settled on an election battle a world away, the media briefly laid siege to her childhood home in this quiet suburb of Turin, but family members at the mustard coloured three-storey house were keeping a low profile on Friday.
Her mother Paola, recently returned from India, lives here, but the doorbell by the garden gate, under overhanging rose bushes, went unanswered.
