Kamala Harris: First woman vice president who fails to score a big first in US politics

Kamala Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, failed to notch a big first in American politics when she lost to her Republican rival Donald Trump in the race to the White House. The Democratic leader’s defeat to Trump in a bitterly contested election shattered her dream to become the first woman President of the United States. Harris, 60, has known other firsts, though. She has been the district attorney for San Francisco — the first woman, first African-American and first Indian-origin person to be elected to the position. As vice president, she is the first woman to hold the post. Also, she happens to be the first African-American or Indian-American person to make it there. In an Op-ed published three days before the November 5 election, Harris recollected her frequent visit to India as a child and remembered her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher and civil rights activist. “Growing up, my mother raised my sister and me to appreciate and honour our heritage. Nearly every other year, we would go to India for Diwali. We would spend time with our grandparents, our uncles, and our ‘chitthis’ (aunts),” Harris said in the article for The Juggernaut, an...