Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has become a big name in India. Recently, on Saturday she took a trip down memory lane, recalling her mother's attempts to "instill a love of good idli" in her and her sister Maya and "long walks" that she used to have with her grandfather in Chennai. Speaking during an event by 'South Asians of Biden', Harris extended her wishes on India's Independence Day and said Indian and US communities are bound together by so much more than their shared history and culture.

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"When my mother Shyamala stepped off a plane in California as a 19-year-old, she didn't have much in way of belongings but she carried with her lessons from home, including ones she'd learned from her parents," she said. The California Senator remembered how she and her grandfather would go on long walks in what was then called Madaras where the latter would tell Harris about "heroes" who were involved in the freedom struggle in India. She said that the lessons from her grandfather P V Gopalan, a career civil servant, are a big reason "why I am where I am today".

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"Growing up, my mother would take my sister Maya and me back to what was then called Madras because she wanted us to understand where she had come from and where we had ancestry. And, of course, she always wanted to instill in us, a love of good Idli," she said. Harris, who recently was picked by Joe Biden as his running mate, will become not only the first Black woman with the ticket but she's also the first Indian-American.

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