The US elections have got the entire world hooked on to TV screens and social media as the country prepares to seal its destiny with the next President. 

As votes are being counted and individual results for each state are being declared, one super interesting fact about these elections is the number of Indian-origin candidates which are winning state assembly seats. 

One such brilliant man is filmmaker Mira Nair’s 29-year-old son Zohran Mamdani.

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Zohran has managed to become the first South Asian to win a seat in the state assembly in New York and has a stellar personal profile that has left us quite impressed. 

Zohran is an Indian-Ugandan-American politician, a housing counsellor, and he also raps as a hip-hop artist. 

He was born in Uganda but moved to New York when he was about 7-years-old. Before running for office, he was working as a foreclosure conselor and as an artist. 

His notable works include a track called Nani which got pretty famous last year. 

Zohran’s political aspirations include working towards housing and better healthcare for all the residents of the state and as far as the NYPD’s reputation is concerned, he wants to work towards cleaning the working system there. 

His mother is one of the finest filmmakers in the world and is currently in the global news for her visual adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, which stars Tabu and Ishan Khattar in lead roles. 

His father Mahmood Mamdani is a famous Ugandan author and scholar and is currently serving as the chancellor of the Kampala university of Uganda.

It will be very interesting so see the 29-year-old politician leading and paving the way for a better community. 

The world can surely benefit from the youth taking charge of nations and building the future.

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