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‘Pride of our village’: Tiruvarur celebrates victory of Kamala Harris Source:Dailymirror The ancestral village of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris woke up early on Sunday to soak in the glory of “village daughter” Kamala becoming the first woman Vice President of the United States. Residents of Thulasendrapuram had earlier put up posters, banners extending support to Kamala as the next Vice President. On Sunday, there were congratulatory rangoli messages in front of the houses, soon after Kamala Harris delivered her first speech as the Vice-President elect, in which she remembered Shyamala Gopalan who was from Tiruvarur. ...

Nov 14, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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Kamala Devi Harris and the destiny-changing coconuts from Chennai – by NARAYANAN V  Kamala Devi Harris (right) with mother Shyamala Gopalan (left) and aunt Sarala Gopalan in a family picture taken in 2005. – Special Arrangement Joe Biden has selected the Senator from California as his vice-presidential running mate. The Senator from California is Joe Biden’s pick for vice-president in the US election The Varasiddhi Vinayagar Temple at Besant Nagar in Chennai has a special place in California senator Kamala Harris’ heart. Not just because her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was in the committee when the temple was constructed. But because nine years ago, when Joe Biden’s new running mate contested California’s Attorney General election, she called her maternal aunt Sarala Gopalan with a request: “Chithi (aunt), please pray for me and break coconuts at the temple.” ...

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 Kamala Harris:Tamil Iyer Brahmin for Sri Lanka Tamil reparation? – By Daya Gamage Note: Kindly note that the NEW Chief of Staff for Kamala Harris is…Karine Jean-Pierre Ref: pinknews Source:Asian Tribune The US Democratic Party presidential candidate – former Obama vice president – Joseph Biden’s vice presidential running mate US Senator Kamala Devi Harris is far from an Americanized woman of South India’s Tamil Iyer Brahmin heritage: to date, she has proudly retained her South Indian heritage – maintaining a certain level of the Tamil tongue – that could extend her vice-presidential reach to the region. Having a chief-of-staff of Sri Lankan Tamil-heritage, there is a strong possibility that the Biden White House – if inaugurated on January 20 next year – could add Sri Lanka’s ‘national issues’ or ‘ethnic issues’, that were given less priority since the defeat of Tamil Tiger-separatism in 2009, as one of the US foreign ...

Aug 19, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , Comments 0
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Dreams from her mother: How Shyamala Gopalan prepared Kamala Harris for the White House – By Sunil Adam Shyamala Gopalan Harris, center, with her daughters Kamala and Maya. Source:India Abroad Kamala Devi Harris, who announced her candidacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, has a long road to travel in her bid to oust Donald Trump from the White House. First, she has to overcome a posse of heavy weights in the Democratic Party to be the nominee — there are a number of declared and potential candidates with greater name recognition and expansive resumes than the freshman Senator from California. After that, as a petite brown-black woman, she has to confront an imposing battering ram of a man who is not only skilled at sucking every ounce of oxygen on any given platform, but who is also betting on the riding, again, the crest of paranoia about the loss ...

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