Indian village celebrates Kamala Harris’s roots, prays for her success • FRANCE 24 English

Vice President and presidential election contender Kamala Harris is viewed as role model in her mother’s ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram where residents gather regularly to pray for her win in the upcoming US vote. Harris, who visited the village as a five-year-old, has recalled walks with her grandfather on the beach of the city of Chennai where the family later lived, about 320 km (200 miles) from the village of roughly 2,000 people.
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22 comments
  1. Tamil nadu are not racist or castist. We dont care if she is half black or half indian. She is still our daughter. Only sanghis strive for “pureblood”

  2. People shown praying to their god. But how can you interpret that as, they're praying for kamala harris ?

    Priest says something about worshippers getting prasadam (flower/ food offering to the god) and the translator made it look like he's talking about kamala harris.😅

    This is A class journalism

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  4. i am Indian and I am not with her….. She is a fake, phoney politician, propped up by the Media and crony capatilist. She hasn;t won a primary and she's definitely not a smart person. But because she is supposedly an "Indian" and I am supposed to like her?? She will continue the wars and econmic crisis, she is just a puppet… The real people pulling the strings are the elistist as always.

  5. Indians would do well not to fall for cheap tricks by politicians on either side, but look deeper at policy level. Just because someone is of Indian origin need not necessarily be an advantage for India or NRIs. Kamala proudly panders to her black heritage and hasn't really invoked her Indian roots ever since being nominated. Policywise Donald Trump makes more sense. Since he will prune illegal immigration and Indians give or take will be the greatest beneficiaries of a legal immigration process. our remittances are the highest in the world and US is the biggest source country. All this is mostly through legal immigration. Also, conservative American values – faith, family, freedom (even in markets) pander greatly to the Indian community since it means a mostly law abiding country instead of a country in a perennial mess. Lesser wars also is good for commerce and India being a huge economy is among the biggest beneficiaries. DT keeping China and Russia in check while not going to wars with them would be to India's advantage. At the same time there are good chances that countries wouldn't dare invade other countries under DT`s watch. Policy coherence and clarity…and not just fringe and activist issues such as lgbtq++ and climate change hyperbole…is greater in DT`s camp. He will also be hard on terrorist elements…esp Islamic and Iranian proxies…which India too has suffered much. Also last time there was much camaraderie, although like with everyone else you can expect DT to be a tough negotiator…but the friendship was unmistakable unlike in case of Obama or even Biden.

  6. France24 looking for TRP via India ….France and Macron should be ashamef for the debacle at the Olympic opening ceremony which was a DISASTER and proved more french transgender exists than straight

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