Fresh off his historic election win to become the next Mayor of New York City, Democrat Zohran Mamdani paid homage to his Indian heritage by quoting from one of the most famous speeches in 20th-century history: Jawaharlal Nehru's "Tryst with Destiny."

Addressing his supporters after clinching the mayoralty, Mamdani invoked the stirring words delivered by India's first Prime Minister at the moment of the country's independence in 1947.

Quoting the Architect of Modern India

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Mamdani cited one of the most crucial sentences of Nehru's speech, comparing India's path to independence with New York City's move to a new era in politics:

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the

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