FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2024
LAFFIN KAMALA – WILL SHE MAKE IT TO THE WHITE HOUSE! When Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, to Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J Harris, neither Shyamala nor Donald would have ever imagined that their daughter would one day cock-a-snook at the most powerful position of the most powerful country on the earth. But that is the truth and not a fiction. On July 21, US President Joe Biden announced endorsing Kamala Harris, his Vice President for 4 years, 2020 to 2024, as the Presidential nominee of the Democrats. That was indeed a piece of history already made. Shyamala Gopalan, daughter of Gopalan Iyer, or Painganadu Venkatraman Gopalan Iyer from Thalasendrapuram, a tiny village on the outskirts of Thanjavoor city in Tamil Nadu, was a biologist. She arrived in the United States of America from India in 1958 to study endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in the same University. During the course of research for her thesis she met Donald