Kamala D. Harris

The story begins when a young Tamilian lady from Chennai, India, Miss. Shyamala Gopalan had decided to move to the United States for puruing higher studies in the field of medical science. The dream of a decent career and beautiful life must have provoked this idea inside her to move to the US, but by that time she didn’t know what destiny has designed for her. In the year 1960, Shyamala Gopalan migrated to the United States to study at the University of California, Berkeley, fromwhere she achieved a successful career as a breast cancer specialist in California. She achieved a decent career for herself and later she met a Jamaican American, Donald Harris, who was then leading the economics department at the Stanford University. They both shared soft feelings for each other and decided to get married. The blend of two cultures in a third and most powerful culture gave birth to Kamala and Maya, the two angels of Shyamala and Donald Harris. The marriage didn’t last for long and they divorced when Kamala was a toddler. The Indian culture has its own aroma of managing relationships, even after the end of the relations, and Shyamala is a one good example of this, as she never married again after the divorce and took care of her daughters alone. It was amid Civil Rights era conflicts, she raised her daughters embracing their African American heritage. Both the girls were trained to respect all the cultures that are Indian, Jamaican and American.  Kamala, from the initial years of her childhood was trained to nurture the beauty of the diversified cultures.

Kamala’s childhood must have been a struggle for her being a daughter of a single mother amidst racial riots, though it was tough but these situations were polishing her, for tomorrow. She accomplished her under-graduation from Howard University and went to the US Hastings College of Law at the University of California to pursue Law. Kamala turned out to be one of the best lawyers in California. On January 5, 2011 she acquired the position of 32^nd Attorney General of California, which is a position of deemed responsibilities. In the year 2015, she made an announcement that she would be contesting for the US Senate election in 2016, seeking for the position to be vacated by Barbara Boxer. On Super Tuesday when the whole world was waiting for the results of the US Presidential elections between Clinton and Trump, Kamala was waiting for the results of the US Senate elections from California. Though the world is still waiting for the first lady President for the United Stated of the America, as Clinton could not make it and Mr. Donald Trump with his anti-immigration policies got elected as the 45^th President of the United States. But somebody was engulfed in creating history on this great day and it was Kamala, who was elected US Senate Elect from California.

Kamala D. Harris is now California’s new Democratic Senator elect, who is the first 2^nd Gen Senator with African-Asian origin, and also the first Tamilian NRI who achieved those pinnacles. Kamala is not going to halt here as her ambitions are not over yet. She is a strong candidate for the next US Presidential elections and a hope of the world who could fight against Trump’s anti-immigration policies. She is the hope of millions of immigrants, as she is the one who could safeguard their peaceful stay in the US.  Kamala just after her victory as a US Senator-elect announced a protest against anti immigration policies of Trump and stated that, “it is the very nature of this fight for civil rights and justice and equality that whatever gains we make, they will not be permanent. So we must be vigilant. Do not despair. Do not be overwhelmed. Do not throw up our hands when it is time to roll up our sleeves and fight for who we are.” She mentioned that she will be doing everything in her power to protect immigrants and criticized the Donal Trump’s  demands for ‘mass deportations and a giant border wall’ as completely unrealistic.

The President of the United States, holds the most powerful position in the world. Nobody has ever thought that a daughter of an Indian mother, who raised her daughters alone, inculcated all the Indian values in them, could be the future of the world. Shyamala, while moving to the United States would have never thought that she is going to give birth to a daughter who has the stamina to govern that foreign and the most powerful country in the world. The hopes associated with Kamala are not baseless as she is at present the most capable candidate for the US Presidential Election of 2020.