Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris
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27th January, 2021 11:19:35
Shyamala Gopalan was a pioneering woman of colour in America, a scientist and an activist. She was also Vice-President Kamala Harris s mother and her greatest influence . Geeta Pandey in Delhi and Vineet Khare in Washington DC look at her life.
Just hours before her inauguration last week, Vice-President Harris paid tribute to the women who had aided her journey to the second highest position in the US government.
In a video posted to Twitter, she began with the woman most responsible for my presence here today, my mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris .
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The woman who inspired Kamala Harris
Shyamala Gopalan was a pioneering woman of colour in America, a scientist and an activist. She was also Vice-President Kamala Harris s mother and her greatest influence . Geeta Pandey in Delhi and Vineet Khare in Washington DC look at her life.
Just hours before her inauguration last week, Vice-President Harris paid tribute to the women who had aided her journey to the second highest position in the US government.
In a video posted to Twitter, she began with the woman most responsible for my presence here today, my mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris . When she came here from India at the age of 19, maybe she didn t quite imagine this moment, she said.