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Oct 25, 2019 · With P.V. Gopalan, an upright civil servant and doting patriarch, Kamala Harris forged one of the defining relationships of her life. The progressive Indian grandfather who inspired Kamala Harris...
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 ).
- Rajam Gopalan
- Maternal grandfather of Kamala Harris
- 4, including Shyamala
Aug 12, 2020 · Gopalan’s mother and Harris’ grandmother, Rajam Gopalam, was an outspoken community organizer. Rajam’s husband, P.V. Gopalam, was an accomplished Indian diplomat. “My mother had been...
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Sep 13, 2020 · Kamala Harris with her mother Shyamala, center, her sister Maya, bottom left, and her maternal grandparents, P.V. and Rajam Gopalan, in 1972. Credit... via Joe Biden campaign
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Jan 20, 2021 · Flanking Harris are her grandparents P.V., left, and Rajam Gopalan, who were visiting in 1972. Courtesy of the Kamala Harris campaign. In her autobiography, Harris does not explicitly identify...
Jan 20, 2021 · Her senior civil servant father, P.V. Gopalan, was a member of the privileged, elite, ancient Tamil Brahmin caste, and her mother, Rajam, was a woman’s rights activist and proponent of...
Jan 23, 2019 · Her mother, Rajam Gopalan, had been betrothed at 12 and married at 16, but grew into a self-assured woman who used her position as an upper-caste wife to advocate for less advantaged women....
