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.
Aug 24, 2020 · During her 2019 campaign for president, the Los Angeles Times published a story about Harris’s “progressive Indian grandfather,” P.V. Gopalan, who reportedly used his retirement savings to...
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...
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 ...
P. V. Gopalan (1911 – February 1998) was the maternal grandfather of Kamala Harris. Gopalan was a career civil servant, eventually serving as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation.
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...
