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Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California to an Indian mother and an Afro-Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biologist who came to the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California whereas her father, Donald J Harris came to the US in 1961, also enrolling in UC Berkeley and specialised in development economics. They met in 1962 and married a year later. Harris was born in 1964.
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The village hogged the limelight in August 2020 when Kamala was nominated as the Democrat Vice President candidate, and it celebrated her victory the same year.
A special ‘abhishekam’ of sandalwood and turmeric, besides a special ‘archana’ was performed on Tuesday at a temple in the village of the ancestors of Kamala Harris as the villagers prayed for her victory.
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