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P. V. Gopalan. Painganadu Venkataraman Gopalan (1911 – February 1998) [1] was an Indian career civil servant, a member of Central Secretariat Service who served as Director of Relief Measures and Refugees in the government of Zambia, especially the exodus of refugees from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ).
Aug 16, 2020 · Image. Ms. Harris, front center, in 1972 with her younger sister and her mother, who is flanked by her own parents. ... Shyamala Gopalan, who came to America in the late 1950s young and alone and ...
Oct 25, 2019 · After Shyamala divorced Donald in the early 1970s, she brought her daughters back to India often, usually to Chennai, where her parents settled after Gopalan retired.
Aug 21, 2020 · Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, immigrated from India to the United States at age 19 to pursue her doctorate degree at the University of California, Berkeley. Even before her own diagnosis in 2008, Gopalan was a prominent cancer research scientist whose published work in 1967 helped determine how hormone receptors played a role in the development ...
Kamala Harris has spent her life breaking glass ceilings. Born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, Harris is the daughter of immigrants. Her father was born in Jamaica and her mother was born in India. After her parents divorced, Harris and her younger sister Maya were raised by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a single parent.
Sep 14, 2020 · While involved in the civil rights movement at Berkeley and Oakland, Harris met Shyamala Gopalan, another UC-Berkeley graduate student, and the two married in July 1963 but divorced in 1971. They had two daughters, Kamala, the current U.S. Senator from California, and Maya, an attorney. Shyamala Gopalan died in 2009.
Nov 7, 2020 · There, he met Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian graduate student his age, who was pursuing a Ph.D. in nutrition and endocrinology. Ms. Harris, their elder daughter, has written that the two “fell in ...
