Who is Shyamala Gopalan? Whom Kamala Harris repeatedly mentioned in her speech

New Delhi. Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the US elections to be held this year, is campaigning vigorously across the country. During one of her election campaigns on Thursday, Harris repeatedly mentioned Shyamala Gopalan. It is natural to wonder who is this woman? And why is her name being mentioned repeatedly in the election speech. Let us explain the whole story behind this. Shyamala Gopalan is Kamala Harris’s mother, who originally hails from the South Indian city of Chennai.

Kamala Harris is trying to reach out to people of Indian origin by repeatedly mentioning her South Asian identity during the election campaign. Kamala Harris said in her speech, “My mother was 19 years old when she crossed the world alone. She came to California from India with an unshakable dream. She taught us to never complain about injustice, but to do something about it.”

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Shyamala Gopalan worked against cancer
Let us tell you that Shyamala Gopalan’s grandfather was a civil servant and a supporter of India’s independence from the British. Gopalan was also inclined towards similar social work. At the age of 19, her mother came to California from India. After enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley, Kamala Harris’s mother joined the civil rights movement. Gopalan received her doctorate at the age of 25 and became a leading breast cancer researcher. It was in Berkeley that she met Kamala Harris’s father Donald Harris. Their relationship lasted for eight years and they got married in 1963 and then divorced in 1971. Shyamala Gopalan died in the year 2009.

Despite my mother’s success, I faced difficulties
Kamala Harris further said during her speech that despite her mother’s success, her life as a new immigrant was often affected by racism. Harris said, “My mother was a 5-foot-tall, brilliant brown woman who also had a different way of speaking. As the eldest child, I saw how the world sometimes treated her, but my mother never lost her temper.”

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