Dhoom Machale: How Zohran Mamdani turned New York into the Big Blue Apple

In the beginning, to paraphrase Sinatra, it seemed like Mamdani had bitten off more than he could chew, but by the end, he faced it all and stood tall, doing it his way. His campaign began with TikTok videos and Instagram reels and ended with a Nehru quote and the title track of a Bollywood action caper from nearly two decades ago. His mother, Mira Nair, beamed, “I am the producer,” reviving an old joke from Cannes 1998 when Salaam Bombay! was screened, and someone had asked her mother who she was. In a single year, Mamdani gave liberals — not just in America but across the world — something they had been missing for a long time: hope.