As Zohran Mamdani won the polls for the New York Mayor, democratic socialism took centre stage. Apart from being known in India as celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair’s son, Zohran brings both a global perspective and a deeply local focus to his work. For a few tremulous hours, one half of India recognised itself in Zohran’s victory, writes The Tribune Editor-in-Chief Jyoti Malhotra in her weekly column The Great Game ‘ Sadda beta’ has pushed the envelope . There is one half in India that continues to believe that the idea of New York — energetic and vibrant and messy and authentic — could still be the idea of India, a little bit of this and that. The other half is viscerally critical of Zohran because he is critical of PM Modi’s politics, she writes. At 34, he doesn’t understand the mean

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