A remote village in Tamil Nadu, India, has found itself in the international spotlight because of a very famous 'granddaughter'.
People celebrated in the streets with fireworks and houses were decorated in bright colours in the tiny village of Thulasendrapuram when the results of the 2020 US presidential election were announced. Kamala Harris assumed the position of US Vice President, the first African-American and Asian-American to hold that office.
Harris's maternal uncle, Gopalan Balachandran, is an academic based in Delhi and has also worked as a consultant at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis . In an earlier interview with SBS Tamil, Balachandran said his father, PV Gopalan, worked to rehabilitate refugees from East Pakistan in India and later served as an adviser to the Zambian president while living in Lusaka, and his mother was engaged in social work.
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