The people in the town are likely to hold special poojas every day until the official Democratic candidate for president is named.
On Monday, there were special prayers at the Dharma Sastha Temple in Painganadu-Thulasendrapuram village, which is where Kamala Harris’ grandfather was born. The US vice president seemed to be the favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
People in the village, which is 350 km from Chennai, celebrated Harris’s election as vice president in 2020 by making rangolis in front of their houses and feeding a lot of people. On Monday, from 9:30 am to 10:00 am, they held a special pooja. The people were a…
“We are thrilled that Kamala Harris, who is the granddaughter of P.V. Gopalan, is likely to be the top choice for US president.” We held special poojas to pray that she would be able to get the nod and beat Trump in the end. Rajesh, an r…
Kamala Harris and her maternal uncle Balachandran Gopalan are two of the most well-known people who gave Rs 5,000 each to help fix up the temple. A lot of the time, the temple administration sends holy ash and kumkum to Balachandran.
Even though the Gopalan family had moved away from the town a long time ago, they had never lost touch with it. They still gave money to the temple’s dedication and other celebrations. Another neighbor, Anand, said it was a proud moment for them…
Anand, another resident, said that they are happy that a descendant of the “son of the soil” is likely to run for president of the United States. “We are thrilled and hopeful that the Democrats will choose Kamala Harris to be their president…”
It is said that Kalidas Vandaiyar’s grandpa was very close with Gopalan and his family. Vandaiyar said that he would go to the village and do a special pooja as soon as Kamala Harris was officially named the candidate. Vandaiyar had planned a grand c…
On Monday, Dr. Sarala Gopalan and Balachandran Gopalan could not be reached.
In August 2020, she told DH that Harris was someone who never forgot where she came from. “Me and my brother will always be here for Kamala and Maya whenever they need us,” she had said. “My sister is not alive today.”
Gopalan’s daughter Dr. Shyamala Gopalan married a Jamaican man named Donald Harris. They have two girls together, Kamala Harris and Maya Harris, who is a lawyer.
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Kamala Harris and her sister often went to Chennai with Dr. Shyamala to visit their grandparents in the nice neighborhood of Besant Nagar. They went for a walk on Elliot’s Beach in Besant Nagar with Gopalan.
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