Ancestral villages pray for Harris and Usha

Calling for divine intervention: A woman walking past a poster of Harris in her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, after she was endorsed for the fall presidential election. — AFP

The god of truth and righteousness is on the side of the Democratic Party in this year’s US presidential election, according to Hindu priests in likely nominee Kamala Harris’ ancestral Indian village.

A single narrow road lined with coconut trees leads to Thulasendrapuram, a village surrounded by padi fields deep in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and once home to Harris’ maternal grandfather.