‘Producer of the Candidate’: Meet Mira Nair, whose son Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s first Muslim mayor

New York City is set to wake up to a new dawn, a new age of possibilities with its new mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani — the first ever Muslim and South Asian mayor of NYC. As one of the most prominent cities in the United States is witnessing a change that could very well be era-defining, at the heart of this extraordinary story lies the legacy of the Indian root. Meet Mira Nair — the mother of NYC’s mayor, a filmmaker, a storyteller with her roots in the steel city of India. Throughout the past year, the world has witnessed the meteoric rise of a young Democratic Socialist — a 34-year-old boy, who managed to bring forth one of the most astonishing “political upsets” of this year, becoming the mayor of NYC, while running on a shared dream of making the costliest US city affo