Democratic presumptive presidential candidate Joe Biden scripted history last week when he selected 55-year-old Harris as his running mate in the presidential election on November 3.
Senator Kamala Harris, the first-ever American of Indian and African descent to be the vice-presidential candidate of a major political party, had at one point asked her aunt in India to break coconuts for good luck at a Hindu temple when she was in the fray for California attorney general election in 2010, according to a media report.
Ms.Harris had won the election by a margin of 0.8 percent.
The New York Times, in an article titled “How Kamala Harris’s Family in India Helped Shape Her Values”, said when Harris was fighting the elections for California Attorney General, she called her aunt Sarala Gopalan in Chennai and asked her to break coconuts for good luck at a Hindu temple overlooking the beach at Besant Nagar where she used to walk with her grandfather.
