November 5, 2024 10:41 AM

Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in India to pray for her election victory

Residents of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington. Harris' maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, was born more than a century ago in the leafy village of Thulasendrapuram in what is now southern India's Tamil Nadu state. "There will be a special prayer on Tuesday morning at the temple," G. Manikandan, a villager who run...