Meet Nithya Raman, The Kerala-Born Politician Challenging The Mayor Of Los Angeles

Nithya Raman, The Planner Who Mapped Chennai’s Edges Before Taking On Los Angeles (Picture Credit – Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

She was six years old when she landed in Louisiana. Nithya Raman had been born in Kerala in July 1981, and her family's first American address dropped a small girl from South India into the Deep South. They moved again, to the suburbs north of Boston, and that is where she actually grew up, through the local public school system, with a father working in technology and a mother working for the state. Asked years later whether any of it had held her back, she was brisk about it. "Neither my being Indian American nor my growing up in the suburbs of Boston was an issue."

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Harvard gave her a degree in social studies in 2003, and it gave her Vali Chandrasekaran, a fellow undergraduate who went on to write television comedy. She became a naturalised American citizen at twenty-two. Then she went the wrong way. The standard route for someone holding that degree runs towards a consultancy or a law school, and Raman…

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