November 4 proved to be a significant moment for South Asian political representation in the United States.

Dominating the headlines in the subcontinent was Zohran Mamdani, the son of parents born in India, who won the New York City mayoral election.

But hours before, over 660 km south of New York, Indian-born Ghazala Hashmi was voted in as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, the office that presides over the state senate.

Also on Tuesday, Aftab Karma Singh Pureval, an attorney born to an Indian father and Tibetan mother, won a second term as mayor of the city of Cincinnati in Ohio.

Their victories are an indication of the diversity and rising political consciousness of the 5.4 million Americans of Indian descent, who make up 1.6% of the country’s population.

On Tuesday, when 61-year

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