PV Gopalan: a guiding light for Kamala
PV Gopalan, born in 1911 in a village in the Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu, began his career in the Public Administration of India in the 1930s and traveled across the country serving as Under Secretary of the Government of India in the Ministry of Transport (Highway Wing), Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Rehabilitation.
Harris had once referred to him as “one of my favorite people in my world.”
In his memoirs, The truths that we hold Kamala spoke of how Gopalan was a diligent official. After Zambia gained independence in 1964, Gopalan was delegated to the federal government of Zambia as Director of Relief and Refugee Measures in Lusaka.
In a 2009 interview with journalist Aziz Haniffa, she talked about how, “Some of my best childhood memories were walking along the beach with him after he retired and lived in Besant Nagar, in what was then called Madras. . Every morning he would walk along the beach with his friends, all retired government officials, and they would talk about politics, how to fight corruption and justice ”.
“They laughed, expressed opinions and argued, and those conversations, even more than their actions, had a great influence on me in terms of learning to be responsible, to be honest and to have integrity,” she added. reported News 18.
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