Sen. Harris' Indian heritage and pioneering mother propelled her along with a family history of taking chances, and bold choices, her uncle Gopalan Balachandran tells NBCNews at his home in New Delhi.
He may have been accepting of her choices, but that generosity of spirit extended only so far financially. The elder Gopalan told his daughter that he would pay only for her first year of studies. After that, he said, she was on her own, according to Harris' uncle.
It was not just Harris' mother who may have been an inspiration: Balachandran himself also studied in the United States, receiving his doctorate in economics and computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He later returned to live and work in India. Balachandran is sure she would carry that same sense of racial justice to the White House, even if she was too small to remember those early days.
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