Embracing heritage, Mamdani marks watershed for South Asian Americans
- 06-Nov-2025
WASHINGTON: In a victory speech capping his meteoric rise, New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani quoted at length from the famous “Tryst with Destiny” address by independent India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. As he left the stage to a cheering cross-section of the metropolis, the song on the speaker was not one of the many […]