In Depth - In Depth Dec

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As 2025 winds down, the political landscape continues to reorganise itself in unexpected ways. This month’s cover turns to New York, where Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory has rewritten the script of American urban politics. His win is not merely a personal milestone, but it signals a shift in what voters demand, what leadership can look like, and how power can be redistributed. The implications stretch far beyond the city, offering a message that resonates across democracies wrestling with representation and responsibility. We also present an exclusive conversation with Sheikh Hasina, marking her first public remarks since her exile. In this email interview, she reflects on political turbulence, personal accountability, and the uncertainty ahead. Her words offer clarity at a moment defined by speculation and silence. We then shift our focus to the island in Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka. Hidden along the trade routes lies a mosque of great historic and cultural importance. The Red Mosques in Petha district of Colombo for centuries have been serving as a landmark for traders across the world, due to its unique pattern. In the age of Artificial Intelligence, we raise an important question, do we still own our own face? With the AI learning models in place our pictures with our faces are being used to train the AI models. At a time like this we ask, who really owns our face? Should we copyright our own face? As this year comes to an end, we are eternally grateful to our readers for being a part of our journey. We stepped into the public conversation with conviction, sharing our analyses, our questions, and our insistence on nuance. You received us with curiosity and trust, and for that, we are deeply grateful. As we enter a new year, our commitment remains clear: to examine the world without distortion, to challenge reductive narratives, and to continue telling the stories that matter with precision, honesty, and depth.