Ashwini Bhattacharyya
Kamala Harris, half Jamaican and half Indian esteemed VP of the US. She grew up in Oakland California, USA with her mother Shyamala Gopalan, (Indian) who was a biologist, her father Donald J. Harris (Jamaican) who is a professor at Stanford University and her younger sister Maya Harris who is a lawyer. At a young age, her parents got separated.
After a while, she, her mother, and her sister moved to Montreal Quebec, Canada because of a job offer her mother had gotten there. But when she finished school, she went to Washington D.C for university and came back to California to attend law school. But between all this, her family was going through many very tough and unimaginable challenges.
Things constantly blocked their path for moving on. But then one day, her close friend Wanda Kagan revealed her work to the public. She got a lot of both negative and positive attention. Just when it seemed like things where starting to fall into place, Kamala’s mother died of colon cancer.
The sky tumbled down above her head. All the attention she had earned disappeared and got replaced by hate.
She continuously received many hurtful comments. People kept on pushing her down every time she went to get up. But she wasn’t the type to give up. She held back her tears and carried on. And she made
The US is one of the most successful countries but they can still take notes on subjects like woman empowerment and leadership from countries like Bangladesh. Take for instance, our Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is the perfect example of woman leadership.
We all get the benefit of her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, where she drove our country out of the most difficult challenges. Kamala is different. She will bring flavor and spice unlike anyone else before. Kamala proved to us that wherever we are, whoever we are, and however hard the challenges we face might be, if we can dream, we can win.
Ashwini Bhattacharyya is a class IV student at Scholastica.
