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To the warriors in our midst: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

Updated on: Oct 12, 2024, 15:41:16 IST
By Charles Assisi
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PREMIUMCharles Assisi and his mother, Lilly Assisi. She is proof, he says, that age is no barrier to change. Reinvention doesn’t belong to the young. It belongs to the brave.
Charles Assisi and his mother, Lilly Assisi. She is proof, he says, that age is no barrier to change. Reinvention doesn’t belong to the young. It belongs to the brave.
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Americans seem confused by Kamala Harris’s admiration of her mother. But here, such awe is a given. It comes from seeing women reinvent, rebound, prevail.

There has been a fair amount of talk about US vice-president Kamala Harris saying “I love you, mommy,” on the Presidential campaign trail.

Harris talks about her late mother a fair bit in speeches and interviews too, detailing how Shyamala Gopalan travelled from Chennai to the US at 19, in 1958, to pursue a career in bioscience research. How she met a young Jamaican (Donald J Harris), married him, and joined the civil rights movement.

Kamala was born in 1964,

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