Before Kamala’s big day, a small ceremony in Thulasendrapuram – and grander plans if she wins

Arulmozhi expressed optimism astir Harris’s prospects, saying the colony is acceptable to observe if she wins, with peculiar pujas planned for Wednesday greeting should aboriginal results beryllium favourable.

“We’ll connection prayers for her bully health, and big an annadanam, oregon nutrient offering, with idli and sambar, her favourite nutrient according to her adjacent relatives successful interaction with the temple,” she said.

A clergyman points to Kamala Harris’s sanction connected a chromatic artifact successful her ancestral village. (Express)

According to Arulmozhi, neither her party, the ruling DMK successful Tamil Nadu, nor Kamala’s household asked them to celebrate. “There is thing political. We observe considering her arsenic a miss from this village,” she said.

While overmuch of the village’s transportation to Harris was rediscovered erstwhile idiosyncratic recognised her sanction connected a chromatic donor sheet astatine the temple and probed the household roots erstwhile she became the Vice President, Sudhakar said that Kamala’s “reflected glory” has already brought tangible benefits.

Considering her roots successful this village, the City Union Bank precocious announced a Rs 1 crore assistance to reconstruct Thulasendrapuram’s past colony lake, a task villagers anticipation volition renew the onshore Harris’s household erstwhile called home.

Thulasendrapuram, adjacent Mannargudi, is simply a colony of astir 7,000 people. It revolves astir the Dharma Sastha Temple, which hosts 47 deities, including Perumal, Ananda Sivan, Vinayakar, Murugan, Kaali Amman, and Durga, arsenic good arsenic 7 goddesses. The main clergyman highlighted the value of Dharma Sastha, whose idol uniquely faces west, dissimilar astir temples successful the portion wherever idols look east. He added that the colony erstwhile had 96 agraharams, accepted Brahmin quarters, present reduced to conscionable 15.

“Kamala’s gramps and his predecessors lived present during a clip erstwhile Brahmin families were salient successful the village,” the clergyman said.

Natarajan, a colony elder and the main clergyman of the temple, recalled that Thulasendrapuram’s fame was initially tied to Ganapati Sastrigal, 1 of the closest persons to the 68th Kanchee seer, Mahaperiyavar. He said that the Harris family’s ancestral location and onshore person since passed done respective owners, making them untraceable today.

Among the tiny assemblage connected Tuesday was Devony Evans, an American expatriate from Seattle present surviving successful Chennai. “I voted and came present due to the fact that it felt important to beryllium present today,” she said aft attending the temple rituals.

Sudhakar, hubby of the panchayat councillor, said that immoderate villagers had decorated their houses with kolams, accepted level designs, to observe Harris. “We are truthful blessed for her tenure arsenic Vice President, and we’re assured she volition win. She is the dependable for women successful the US, and her grin brings pridefulness to each pistillate here,” helium said.

If Harris wins, the colony plans to big an annadanam for each villagers, serving idli and sambar. Sudhakar added, “All this is our ain effort; her household hasn’t reached retired arsenic her aged aunt is successful Chennai and they indispensable beryllium anxious up of the results. But we judge they’ll sojourn america aft the results.”