What’s in a name? In South Gujarat, Sonia is a man | Ahmedabad News – Times of India
Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is back in the news, having vacated the party’s traditional stronghold, Rae Bareli, for her son, Rahul Gandhi. This political maneuver has drawn attention to a curious anomaly among Gujarat’s tribal communities of South Gujarat: the prevalence of the name ‘Sonia’ among men.The name, believed to have been derived from…