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REVEALED: Kamala's aunt and uncle called her from India to say everyone they knew had a friend or relative with COVID - as Indian-Americans accuse her of not doing enough to address surge
Vice President Kamala Harris' aunt and uncle spoke to her from India earlier this month to give her a firsthand account about the COVID-19 crisis on the ground
The Washington Post reported details of their conversation Tuesday, amid criticism Harris hasn't done enough personally to address the horrific surge
Harris' relatives told the vice president, the first of Indian descent, that they were healthy, but nearly everyone they knew had a friend or relative with COVID
IllinoisUnited-statesIndiaWashingtonNew-delhiDelhiWhite-houseDistrict-of-columbiaChennaiTamil-naduAmericanRaja-krishnamoorthiAs a child, Harris used to visit India every other year. Now all that remains of her extended family there are her aunt and uncle. Another Indian-born aunt lives in Canada.
Balachandran said that while he used to hear about friends of friends getting the virus, now it’s hitting close to home. Those he knows personally or worked with are getting the virus, and some are dying.
“The conditions are pretty bad in India,” he said.
Balachandran considers himself one of the lucky ones, as he’s retired and largely stays home alone, leaving only occasionally for groceries, so that “nobody can infect me other than myself.”
IndiaJammuJammu-and-kashmirUnited-statesWashingtonWhite-houseDistrict-of-columbiaNew-delhiDelhiCaliforniaCanadaPakistanNearly three months since the US election, Kamala Harris will soon make history as the first woman to be sworn in as Vice-President.As the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris has made much of her historic background. And not always without controversy – the recent ‘fweedom’ gaffe being a case in point.
So who’s who in the new Vice President’s family?
The inspiration – PV Gopalan (1911 – 1998), Harris’s grandfather
Born into a Brahmin family in Tamil Nadu, Painganadu Venkataraman Gopalan joined the Indian civil service during the final decades of British rule. After independence, he specialised in the resettlement of refugees, eventually being stationed in Zambia to help with the flow of people fleeing neighbouring Rhodesia.Harris, who visited her grandfather in Zambia as a child, has spoken fondly about him as her ‘favourite person’, with the two exchanging letters during the early years of her career. He plays a central role in her 2019 memoir, The Truths We Hold.But was it all – well – true? One US newspaper reported that Harris’s Indian uncle had rubbished her description of Gopalan as an advocate for Indian independence. According to the paper, not only was there no record of him taking such a position, but it would have likely been career suicide too.
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