India, June 28 -- Zohran Mamdani, 33, won New York's Democratic mayoral primary this week on the back of a campaign centered on civic issues. If elected, he would be the first Muslim and Indian American mayor of New York. What explains the rise of Mamdani, so soon after Donald Trump's emphatic victory? The answer lies in the demography of New York, among the most diverse cities globally: as many as 49% of New Yorkers speak non-English languages at home. This week, we recommend New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time. The book is based on Craig Taylor's encounters with a diverse cross-section of the city's eight million population. It is about the uncelebrated but representative people who propel New York: a hospital nurse, an emergency dispatcher, those wiring the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, etc. The book explores new immigrants, their battles between loving and wanting to leave New York, and who gets to be considered a New Yorker....