American People of Tamil Descent

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ananda Coomaraswamy, Aziz Ansari, G. V. Loganathan, Indra Nooyi, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kamala Harris, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Mindy Kaling, Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam, Raj Rajaratnam, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sukanya Krishnan, Sunkrish Bala, Tamil American, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Vijay Iyer. Excerpt: Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney. She is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California following the 2010 California state elections. Harris has worked as an author and a politician and served as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. First elected in 2003, defeating incumbent district attorney Terence Hallinan, she was re-elected in 2007. Harris is the first female, African-American and Asian American attorney general in California as well as the first ethnic Indian American attorney general in the United States. Harris was born in Oakland, California. She is the daughter of an Asian Indian mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan-a breast cancer specialist who emigrated from Madras (now called Chennai), India, to the United States in 1960-and a Jamaican American father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. She has one younger sister, Maya Harris. The Harris sisters grew up in a household that combined Hindu and Baptist teachings. Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1990. Harris celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionHarris served as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, California, from 1990 to 1998. She then became Managing...