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From that single line, a web of insinuation has been spun. Surnames have been confused. Family histories misread. Her son has been dragged into a narrative that has nothing to do with him. What remains, once the noise recedes, is a story far narrower and far more ordinary than the…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced voter protests at his home following the release of new Jeffrey Epstein-related documents. These records mention his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, in connection with a 2009 social event hosted by Ghislaine Maxwell. Protesters expressed anger and disappointment, questioning Mamdani's integrity after having supported…

New York has chosen its millennial mayor. More importantly, it has chosen an Indian-origin Muslim immigrant, Zohran Kwame Mamdani. As clubs and bars across the city were brimming with people, as friends came to watch the results together, emotions were palpable on Tuesday night. And finally, as the race was…

Nair is the first woman director to win the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, and famously turned down Warner Bros.’ offer to direct the fourth Harry Potter movie.

The 34-year-old is set to be New York’s youngest mayor in more than a century

Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City's first Muslim and South Asian mayor, winning through a grassroots campaign after early work in film, including Queen of Katwe.

Zohran Mamdani, the progressive Democrat who just won New York City's mayoral race, becomes its first Muslim and South Asian mayor. Discover his background, campaign priorities, and journey to power.

How his public intellectual parents shaped the new New York mayor’s politics has been a persistent line of inquiry on the campaign trail

The New York mayoral candidate, who was born in Uganda, has faced backlash in the US over his complex identity – but here in Kampala, Ugandans of Indian descent are unquestioningly considered African