A Saturday of 1965, at Greek Resto: The Lore of Rajiv And Sonia Gandhi's Love at First Sight in Cambridge

It was in the city of Cambridge, some 80 kilometres North of London, that Rajiv and Sonia met for the first time in 1965. Homesick and miserable, one Saturday, Sonia went to a Greek restaurant called Varsity on St Andrew Road, which was famous for its moussaka. Rajiv then requested Charles to personally go up to the girls, present the bottle of wine, pour it out, and then present the napkin with the poem to the girl who was introduced as Sonia Maino and, to top it all, belt out an aria!’ In her book ‘Rajiv,’ published in 1992, Sonia has given a shorter account recalling, “Our eyes met for the first time directly at a close distance. During their Cambridge days, Rajiv and Sonia frequently saw films at the three cinema theatres of which Cambridge boasted.