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Kamala follows in Jindal footsteps: The Times of India
Washington, Dec 08: Bobby Jindal`s Louisiana leap may have come up short in the American political circus, but Kamala Harris in California is all set to take another jump.
Washington, Dec 08: Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana leap may have come up short in the American political circus, but Kamala Harris in California is all set to take another jump.
Harris, 39, an Indian-American lawyer, is fighting to become San Francisco’s District Attorney in a nationally-watched election set for Tuesday. Local political pundits and opinion polls suggest she has a good shot at unseating the current DA Terence Hallinan.
Harris, who is currently a deputy city attorney, is an unusual Indian-American, a rare combination of Tam-Brahm and Caribbean-African-American. She was born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley, where her mother Dr Shyamala Harris was active in the civil rights movement, and during which she met her Jamaican husband.
Kamala and her sister, Maya Lakhsmi, profess to be closer to their Indians roots – they wear saris as comfortably as they do business suits -- and visited their grandparents in Chennai till some years back. “'I grew up with a strong Indian culture, and I was raised in a black community,”' Harris told the San Francisco Examiner earlier this year. “'All my friends were black and we got together and cooked Indian food and painted henna on our hands, and I never felt uncomfortable with my cultural background.”
Harris, 39, an Indian-American lawyer, is fighting to become San Francisco’s District Attorney in a nationally-watched election set for Tuesday. Local political pundits and opinion polls suggest she has a good shot at unseating the current DA Terence Hallinan.
Harris, who is currently a deputy city attorney, is an unusual Indian-American, a rare combination of Tam-Brahm and Caribbean-African-American. She was born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley, where her mother Dr Shyamala Harris was active in the civil rights movement, and during which she met her Jamaican husband.
Kamala and her sister, Maya Lakhsmi, profess to be closer to their Indians roots – they wear saris as comfortably as they do business suits -- and visited their grandparents in Chennai till some years back. “'I grew up with a strong Indian culture, and I was raised in a black community,”' Harris told the San Francisco Examiner earlier this year. “'All my friends were black and we got together and cooked Indian food and painted henna on our hands, and I never felt uncomfortable with my cultural background.”