Bonding over heritage: In a video with Indian-American comedian and actress Mindy Kaling (left) posted on Harris’s YouTube page during Harris’s failed presidential run previously, the current vice-presidential nominee says that she grew up eating Indian dishes – ‘Lots of rice and yogurt, potato curry, dhal, lots of dhal, idli.’ — YouTube
IN 2010, Deepak Puri and Shareen Punian, a San Francisco-based Indian-American couple, organised a fundraiser for San Francisco’s high profile district attorney for six years, then running for the post of California’s attorney-general. They had only learned recently that that district attorney was “one of their peeps”, a woman whose mother was an Indian immigrant. Hence the fundraiser.
Who was that high profile district attorney who had kept her Indian heritage so hidden? She was Kamala Harris, now Joe Biden’s pick for vice president of the United States.
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