During the Democratic Party’s election to choose the candidate for mayor of New York City in June, many of us New Yorkers began noticing a strange narrative taking shape – that all Hindus were against Zohran Mamdani.

The message seemed simple: Mamdani was “anti-Hindu” because he had called out the political motivations behind the Gujarat riots of 2002. For so many of us, that couldn’t have felt farther from the truth. We were focused on an election 12,000 km away from Gujarat.

At first, we wondered if we were missing something. Was this really how people felt? Were we in a bubble? We talked among ourselves, called friends, and quickly realised no one we actually knew believed this. We care about issues affecting New Yorkers and affordability. Personally, I care about childcare, and my tw

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