CHENNAI: Villagers from Kamala Harris’s ancestral home in southern India made offerings of fruit, lit firecrackers and prepared hundreds of snacks in celebration of her swearing-in Wednesday as United States vice president.

Thulasendrapuram, where Harris’s grandfather was born, has been in party mode since November when Joe Biden and Harris won the American presidential election.

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