Move over, Bollywood — the Big Apple’s got a new hero who knows how to bring that masala energy to the mayor’s office. New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has been spotted (and memed) enough to make us all say, “ Arre yaar, is he secretly from Delhi? ”

From street swagger to chai charm, here are five times the mayor-elect went full desi mode — knowingly or not.

Zohran’s kurta game can’t be matched

Was it linen? Was it FabIndia? Nobody knows — but Zohran’s off-white kurta that he recently stepped out in had ‘Diwali party at your cousin’s house’ written all over it. And it’s not a one-off — whether it's a Nehru-collar shirt under a blazer or an embroidered kurta with sleek pants, he knows exactly how to channel the power of desi attire, adding to it the power of folded han

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