What Kamala Harris’s ‘chitti’ said about the US vice president-elect

While Indians are all praises for the brand new vice-president elect of the United States, her aunt on Sunday spoke about how Kamala Harris grew up as a “good child” and the way she all the time completed what she aimed for.

“We have always seen her (Kamala Harris) grow up as a good child. She was very good at whatever she did and she has achieved what she wanted to do,” Dr Sarala Gopalan, Chennai-based maternal aunt of Harris was quoted as saying by information company ANI.

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Harris’s landmark election as the primary girl US vp has marked festivities within the Tamil village of the aunt of the Indian-American elect. Residents of Thulasendrapuram village in Tiruvarur district burst firecrackers, distributed sweets and drew vibrant rangolis.

Harris had additionally put highlight on her Tamil roots throughout her acceptance speech because the Democratic nominee for the publish of vp. “She raised us (Harris and sister, Maya,) to be proud, strong Black women. And she raised us to know and be proud of our Indian heritage. She taught us to put family first—the family you’re born into and the family you choose,” she had stated referring to her mom, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. Explaining what household means to her, she added, “Family is my uncles, my aunts, and my chittis”.

The use of the phrase ‘chittis’, which is Tamil for aunts, was hailed by the Indian-American neighborhood . MR Rangaswami, a California IT entrepreneur turned philanthropist, stated he was “punching” himself in pleasure when he heard Kamala Harris utter the phrase “chittis” in her speech. “Indians and Tamilians would have felt a connection with Kamala during her acceptance speech when she addressed her aunts as ‘chittis’,” he stated.

Born of a mom from India and a father from Jamaica, Harris is the primary girl, first Indian American, first Black, first South Asian American and the primary Asian ever elected as vice-president.