As New York City celebrates its newest mayor, another figure has quietly drawn public fascination — his artist wife, whose quiet creativity and guarded privacy have now become part of the city's biggest story. Against all odds and expectations, 34-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has emerged as the Big Apple's next mayor — a result that has rewritten the city's political script and caught even seasoned observers off guard. As the celebration around his victory settled, another story began quietly unfolding — that of his wife, Brooklyn artist Rama Duwaji, whose gentle expressions had suddenly met the glare of New York's spotlight. Once a freelance illustrator navigating post-college life, Duwaji met Mamdani in 2021 on the dating app Hinge — a modern fairytale beginning that blos

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