Shyamala Gopalan
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Painganadu Venkataraman Gopalan (1911 – February 1998) 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).
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.
Jan 20, 2021 · Her father, P.V. Gopalan, was a senior civil servant and a member of the privileged, elite, ancient Tamil Brahmin caste, Biography reports. Shyamala’s mother, Rajam, was a woman’s rights ...
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 increased...
Oct 25, 2020 · After India gained independence in 1947, her father, P. V. Gopalan, led the resettlement of refugees fleeing current-day Bangladesh for India. Those experiences helped shape Gopalan’s sense of...
Aug 12, 2020 · That sense of justice was shaped in large part by P.V. Gopalan, who as a diplomat worked to help resettle refugees from East Pakistan – modern-day Bangladesh – in India after the country’s ...
Aug 16, 2020 · Her grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, had served for decades in the Indian government, and his ritual, nearly every morning, was to meet up with his retired buddies and talk politics as they strolled ...
Mar 31, 2023 · P.V. Gopalan was working with the newly independent Zambia government six decades ago on refugee resettlement and lived at 16 Independence Ave., where Harris visited as a little girl. The home no longer exists; rather, an office building now stands on the plot of land.
Aug 19, 2020 · Her grandfather P.V. Gopalan was a highly regarded diplomat who played a key role in resettling refugees from East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) in India following the horrors of its partition war...
Apr 1, 2023 · U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris remembered her maternal grandfather P. V. Gopalan, an Indian Foreign Service official, during her tour to Zambia and paid a visit to the Gopalan’s family house...
