Priyanka Chopra says Kamala Harris’ daughters of India were doctors

Priyanka Chopra, interviewing US Vice President Kamala Harris in a fireside chat organized by the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum, said that the duo daughters of India Priyanka Chopra's parents were physicians, Kamala Harris father Donald J Harris was Jamaican, and mother Shyamala Gopalan was Indian, who had migrated from Tamil Nadu to the US.

In the interview attended by a room full of Democrats, Chopra said, "I think we're both daughters of India." You're a proud American-born daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father. I am an Indian born as a parent of two physicians and a recent immigrant to this country who still believes in the wholehearted. She said she was talking about the American Dream.

Chopra said that the US has been seen as a beacon of hope, freedom and choice for the world but these tenets are being assaulted endlessly right now. She also said that after working for 20 years in films, it is only this year that she has been paid equal to her male co-stars.

Harris said that the world is in an unsettling state, and that all the things they took for granted earlier are up for debate and questioning. For example, look at Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine. She noted that it was pretty well settled on the issue of territorial integrity and sovereignty, and now that is up for debate, given what's going on there.

The Vice President said that the issue of voting rights was settled in the US with the Voting Rights Act. After the 2020 election when more and more people voted and more young people voted, states around the country started systematically and intentionally making it harder for people to vote. Harris said that we thought a woman's right to make decisions about her own body was settled after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, which provided constitutional rights to abortion. Chopra said absolutely. There is so much to navigate right now. They talked about climate change. Extreme weather conditions like this are becoming more severe and more frequent. America's leadership is dragging their feet when it comes to doing their bit, and I wanted to acknowledge the administration for passing the biggest climate legislation in history earlier this year, because it is a fact that America's leadership is dragging their feet when it comes to doing their part, said Chopra, who is also UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Harris said that the crisis is real and that the clock is ticking. She said that the urgency with which they must act is without any question. It is the lowest income communities and communities of color that are most affected by these extreme conditions and are impacted by issues that are not of their own making, said Harris.