Today, the people of India are shining in every corner of the world. Sunder Pichai Satya Nadella and many others are on the list. In recent news, Joe Biden has defeated the Republican candidate and current President Donald Trump in the US presidential election. Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States. This election was also very interesting as Kamala Harris, an Indian descent woman will take outh as the Vice-President of America for the first time in History. She is the first woman, black woman & Indian native to reach such senior position of Vice President in the United States. So lets find out, who is Kamala Harris and the interesting stories of her life: –
- Harris’ journey to become the Vice President of the United States has been very interesting. Joe Biden, a Democratic candidate for the presidency, selected Kamala Harris as his vice presidential candidate in August.
- Harris once, abandoned his dream of becoming president, citing a lack of financial resources for campaign purposes.
- At one point he was a staunch critic of his former rival Biden in past.
- Harris is one of the three Asian American members of the Senate.
- Harris has set many precedents forever. She is the first woman to become a San Francisco District Attorney, the first of Indian descent, and the first African American.
- During Obama’s tenure, she was popularly known as ‘Female Obama’.
- Shyamla Gopalan, mother of Kamala Harris, arrived at UC Berkeley in 1960 from Tamil Nadu, India. His father, Donald J. Harris, came to UC Berkeley in 1961 from British Jamaica with a bachelor’s degree in economics. They met while studying here and decided to get married while participating in human rights movements.
- Kamala Harris, who studied at Harvard University after high school, was separated from her parents when she was seven years old. Kamala and her younger sister Maya lived with their mother and she had a lot of influence on their lives.
- However that time was not instinctive for black people. During the upbringing of Kamala and Maya, the mother kept both of them attached to their backgrounds and taught them to be proud of their shared heritage. They are deeply connected with Indian culture.
- In this regard, Kamala wrote in her autobiography ‘The Truths We Hold’ on the Biden-Harris propaganda website that her mother knew that she was raising two black daughters and would always be seen as black, but she brought them with such “Sanskar” that, cancer researcher and human rights activist Shyamala and her two daughters came to be known as ‘Shyamala and the Girls’.
- After studying at Harvard University, Harris studied law at the University of California. In 2003, he became San Francisco’s top prosecutor. In 2017, Harris was elected a junior U.S. senator from California.
- When Kamala married her fellow lawyer Douglas Amphoff in 2014, they joined Indian, African and American traditions as well as Jewish traditions.
