Indian village celebrates Kamala Harris's roots, prays for her success 

01:39  © FRANCE 24  Video by: Léa DELFOLIE

Khansa JUNED

Vice President and presidential election contender Kamala Harris is viewed as role model in her mother's ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram where residents gather regularly to pray for her win in the upcoming US vote. Harris, who visited the village as a five-year-old, has recalled walks with her grandfather on the beach of the city of Chennai where the family later lived, about 320 km (200 miles) from the village of roughly 2,000 people.