New Delhi: Zohran Mamdani created history Wednesday in more ways than one. He won the New York City’s electoral race with a record margin, and is set to become the first South Asian Muslim mayor in US history. But in what was perhaps most historic for South Asians, he quoted Jawaharlal Nehru in his victory speech and ended it with ‘Dhoom Machale’, the title track from the Bollywood movie ‘Dhoom’.

In an emotional address—alongside his mother and filmmaker Mira Nair, father and academician Mahmood Mamdani, and his wife, illustrator Rama Duwaji—he blended populist rhetoric with political agenda, and framed his victory as a reclamation of power by the city’s working class as he challenged US President Donald Trump.

Addressing New Yorkers as his ‘friends’, the Indian-origin socialist Democra

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