To the south of India, in the state of Tamilnadu, lies Thulasendrapuram. akin villages surviving from agriculture are thousands in India, but only in the local sanctuary can you find the inscription “Kamala Harris”. It was the first time she was prayed for an American in 2020 to aid her take over as vice president. “And so it happened,” said the priest Senthil Kumar. Now the village is praying for Kamala to become president. “One prayer is enough. She will be!” assured Kumar. There were billboards between the humble huts. They show a smiling vice president of the United States, and in the corner much smaller figures of the mayor and his wife. The signature says, "We hope Kamala Harris wins the election".
The villagers are searching for traces of her ancestors. Unfortunately, the only direct mention is an entry on the black marble board in the temple. And it's not easy to find him. After searching for tens of rows of white letters Kumar pointed to the line and translated from Tamil: “Kamala Harris, Chennai, 5000 rupees”. This confirmation that her aunt donated the temple equivalent of EUR 54 on behalf of her niece in 2014.
Is she inactive Indian?
Even locals argue how much India is in Harris. "Whereever she goes, she will always be Indian, due to the fact that her grandparents are from here," said 1 of them. individual else said, “It has not been in India for 50 years, so it should be seen as an American.” He next said: “Children become part of the culture in which they grow up. And Kamala already lived in the United States erstwhile she was young." The vice president said in her autobiography: “The Indian name reminds me of inheritance. I grew up with large awareness of Indian culture.” At the household ceremony, she wore a sari, a long waist-wrapped cloth belt.
Donald Trump late stated that the vice president had run an election run based on her Indian background and then “she abruptly became black”. – So I don't know if she's Indian or black? Harris finds both cultures his own. Her parent was aware that Kamala was seen as a black girl in the United States, so she told her: “You are Indian and you are black. You do not gotta prove to anyone that you are 1 or the other.”
That's how her parents met.
In Thulasendrapuram, Kamala's grandpa was born, in her grandmother's neighboring village; they were brahmins. They left this place before Harris' parent – Shyamala Gopalan was born. Grandparents must have been very liberal due to the fact that they allowed their 19-year-old daughter to go to the United States for college. It was a revolution. Brahmin girls were to stay home and pray. All they could do was get married, have kids and rise them. Gopalan joined the American civilian Rights Movement. And it was at 1 of the traffic meetings in Berkeley that she met Donald J. Harris from Jamaica. In 1964 she defended her doctorate and in the same year their daughter Kamala was born.
– For deficiency of work, young people leave our village. We grow rice, sesame and peanuts on tiny parcels – Says the farmer here. To make extra money, he sells vadam – thin rice cookies that dry in the sun on an old field bed. The villagers hope that Harris will visit them someday. – possibly then they'll make a good way or even a chopper landing site – One of the farmers had a dream. For now, only journalists from abroad visit the village. Residents are arrogant of the vice president of the United States and claim that it is thanks to her that their village appeared on the planet map.
