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is there a god,

Yes there is

and this dumb cluck never asked herself or fact checked if she was at all even qualified to teach at such a school when asked to join their faculty as an Associate Professor of Journalism.

or maybe she thought that papa, as usual, had once again paved her way, and yet again by entitlement, she would occupy a cushy position that she was not qualified for but certainly privileged to occupy by her lootyens connections

Take a moment folks a deeply inhale the hypocrisy of her deeply ingrained and "to the manor born" assumptions.


Nidhi Razdan was scammed into believing she got an offer from the real Harvard University to become a professor of journalism: Details

Nidhi Razdan said, “I had been given to believe that I would be joining the University in September 2020. While I was making preparations to take up my new assignment, I was later told that due to the ongoing pandemic, my classes would commence in January 2021. Along with these delays, I began noticing a number of administrative anomalies in the process being described to me.”

“At first, I had dismissed these anomalies as being reflective of the new normal being dictated by the pandemic, but recently the representations being made to me were of an even more disquieting nature. As a result, I reached out to senior authorities at Harvard University for clarity. Upon their request, I shared some of the correspondence that I believed I had received from the University,” the statement added.

However, she realized that she had been conned after receiving replies from the Harvard University. She said, “I did not, in fact, receive an offer by Harvard University to join their faculty as an Associate Professor of Journalism. The perpetrators of this attack used clever forgeries and misrepresentations to obtain access to my personal data and communications and may have also gained access to my devices and my email/social media accounts.”
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Read Nidhi Razdan’s latest tweet. This is a piece of art and the greatest trick one ever pulled off.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Who ever did that deserves massive respect.

Also shows the level of intellect of these journalists. In the mud totally.


— Un-bhadralok bangali (@goonereol) January 15, 2021
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^ That is the strangest thing i've seen from 2020

https://twitter.com/jatanacharya/status ... 96579?s=19

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– No Interviews
– No Phone Calls
– No Proofs
– No Cross-Checks

Sounds like a NDTV Prime Time?

No, it’s Nidhi Razdan Harvard Job Offer!


— Anna (@annaranjan) January 15, 2021
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Arnab's whatsapp chats leaked by the Mumbai Police...

https:// www . scoopwhoop . com / news / arnab-leaked-whatsapp-chats-twitter/

[remove the spaces - don't want to backlink to liberandu media outlets]
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Nick Soule@NickSn_Research·1h

She created Harvard story to become influential.

A quick check with my sources have revealed that things have gone wrong and she is being sued in the States for using Harvard’s name.

That’s the reason she has come up with phishing story as suggested by her attorney in States
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Faaak.

They did a whole program & her getting job at #Harvard

And anchored by so called certified news verified trainer.

good show, and great learnings from runditeevee :mrgreen:



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We pointed out here there was no journalism courses in havard. But then...

Havard is the top trending topic on twitter today.. The whole saga is hilarious.
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https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1350063022639706116
I’ve been overwhelmed by the calls & messages of support including the DMs here. I apologise for not writing back immediately. I’m taking a well earned break from social media for a few days & will return refreshed and as good as new. "

Might be a good idea to make that break forever :mrgreen:
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I think BRF suspected when she announced she will be teaching in Harvard, after 6 months, a BRFite mentioned that her name was no where in the faculty directory. So either she was scamming with some short term visiting faculty thingy or lying point blank.

BRF was ahead curve as usual. :mrgreen:

Found it,

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7788&p=2458500&hil ... n#p2458500
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kit wrote:https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1350063022639706116
I’ve been overwhelmed by the calls & messages of support including the DMs here. I apologise for not writing back immediately. I’m taking a well earned break from social media for a few days & will return refreshed and as good as new. "

Might be a good idea to make that break forever :mrgreen:

Wishful thinking. . "Well earned break" is translated as "lie low until it passes over& SM moves to the next big topic".
"Harvard Nidhi" isnt going anywhere. India Today or maybe even back to NDTV. WE wont have to wait long anyway. These scum are shameless
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OMG! OMG! Unbelievable scam


No repercussions ... Nothing will happen to this PRESSTITUTE

I researched Harvard univ too after someone raised this suspicion. Did not find any reference
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Sorry, but the idea that she was scammed by some phishing operation is BS. If there is any scammer in the picture, it is her. Rumors are that she knew of this a long time ago but is finally making up this story because Harvard insisted that she publicly backtrack and disassociate.
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Am curious what is the below -
https://www.extension.harvard.edu/acade ... ism-degree

What is Harvard extension school and its relation to Harvard school?
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Did she apply or get a work visa ?
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chetak wrote:is there a god,

Yes there is

and this dumb cluck never asked herself or fact checked if she was at all even qualified to teach at such a school when asked to join their faculty as an Associate Professor of Journalism.

or maybe she thought that papa, as usual, had once again paved her way, and yet again by entitlement, she would occupy a cushy position that she was not qualified for but certainly privileged to occupy by her lootyens connections

Take a moment folks a deeply inhale the hypocrisy of her deeply ingrained and "to the manor born" assumptions.


Nidhi Razdan was scammed into believing she got an offer from the real Harvard University to become a professor of journalism: Details

Nidhi Razdan said, “I had been given to believe that I would be joining the University in September 2020. While I was making preparations to take up my new assignment, I was later told that due to the ongoing pandemic, my classes would commence in January 2021. Along with these delays, I began noticing a number of administrative anomalies in the process being described to me.”

“At first, I had dismissed these anomalies as being reflective of the new normal being dictated by the pandemic, but recently the representations being made to me were of an even more disquieting nature. As a result, I reached out to senior authorities at Harvard University for clarity. Upon their request, I shared some of the correspondence that I believed I had received from the University,” the statement added.

However, she realized that she had been conned after receiving replies from the Harvard University. She said, “I did not, in fact, receive an offer by Harvard University to join their faculty as an Associate Professor of Journalism. The perpetrators of this attack used clever forgeries and misrepresentations to obtain access to my personal data and communications and may have also gained access to my devices and my email/social media accounts.”

It’s the fault of Modi and his Bhakts. The Mudi sud rejine.
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Finally found the place from where Nidhi got the job offer.

https://ibb.co/CJckB2X
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Something is amiss. She couldn't possibly have bungled up so badly. Is is it really the case of phishing or something (that rNDTV doesn't want to reveal) ?
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Obviously she was set up. To discredit her. In the most apposite way possible. She got a raw deal.
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sanjaykumar wrote:Obviously she was set up. To discredit her. In the most apposite way possible. She got a raw deal.
She’s an idiot, has always been an idiot, and someone took advantage of it, which is easy to do.

I wouldn’t call it a “raw deal,” which implies she was treated unfairly.

Ball is now in the Modi Bhakts’ court. They would be remiss if they didn’t replicate this with all the over-rated pappus of the ecosystem.

Next up should be Sagarika Ghose.
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shravanp wrote:Something is amiss. She couldn't possibly have bungled up so badly. Is is it really the case of phishing or something (that rNDTV doesn't want to reveal) ?
Really? Have you read her writing? This is a creature that gives dim bulbs a bad name.
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KLNMurthy wrote:
shravanp wrote:Something is amiss. She couldn't possibly have bungled up so badly. Is is it really the case of phishing or something (that rNDTV doesn't want to reveal) ?
Really? Have you read her writing? This is a creature that gives dim bulbs a bad name.
journalistic pappu, only much more yeevil, if such a thing is possible
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pappu, while speaking to a tamil audience after jallikattu :mrgreen:
ANI@ANI · Jan 14

Govt isn't just neglecting them, it's conspiring to destroy them because they want to benefit 2-3 of their friends. They want to give what belongs to farmer to 2-3 of their friends. That's what's happening. Neglect is too weak a word to explain what is taking place: Rahul Gandhi
from ambani adani to पूंजीपति to 2-3 friends. :mrgreen:

Can you imagine what must have happened behind the curtains and what a hiding pappu must have got after the "farmers" destroyed over 1500 reliance jio cell towers in punjab.

mafia prince has realized the length of a very short leash that he is on and the "limits of his free speech" when it comes to pissing off those who help in mobilizing funds for the congis

all the bluster seems to have washed out of him because all are not as carefree as Modi for ignoring criticism.
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NDTV is being funded by Omidiyar network (eBay founder)
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vijayk wrote:Guys! NDTV is being funded by Omidiyar network (eBay founder)
link or reference, saar
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A red flag went up in my mind when she claimed to be Associate Prof. To be an Associate Prof, you need a PhD and she does not have one. She could be Adjunct Prof but that was not what she was claiming.

There is some opinion of more sinister goings-on. That she herself adopted a Harvard persona to make money. But in today's world it is too easy to attract attention and get caught.

Did she apply to the job?
Did she have interviews?
Did she get an offer letter?
Did she go to the US any time in connection with the job?
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chetak wrote:
vijayk wrote:Guys! NDTV is being funded by Omidiyar network (eBay founder)
link or reference, saar
word of mouth but very credible ... will try to dig in
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KLNMurthy wrote:
shravanp wrote:Something is amiss. She couldn't possibly have bungled up so badly. Is is it really the case of phishing or something (that rNDTV doesn't want to reveal) ?
Really? Have you read her writing? This is a creature that gives dim bulbs a bad name.
That's all understood but yet I am not able to gather the logic of this massive scale of idiocy.
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I am surprised none of her "intellectual" friends cautioned her. hmmmm...
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sanjaykumar wrote:Obviously she was set up. To discredit her. In the most apposite way possible. She got a raw deal.
There is more to this than a simple scam. If this was a scam, she was in on the scam or perhaps the scammer herself.

There is no way that she would have progressed beyond a certain point in the process without discovering that it was a scam, she would not even have been able to get her work visa processed without proper endorsement from the institute that she claimed to be working for.

Why did it take this long to discover and announce that she got scammed? It is clear that she was trying to brush things under the carpet, while all the while claiming to be an actual Harvard faculty while on many speaking/media engagements, and she has now been forced to publicly clear the air (perhaps by Harvard etc threatening to sue).
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Hindsight is 20/20. But looking back, I can't seem to understand what skills was Ms. Razdan bringing to the table. Like it or not, Harvard is a top dog in higher education. That, they would give an Associate Prof to someone without a PhD does not makes sense, especially when Associate Profs have tenure track.

Completely understandable that the US needs attack dogs to constantly finger India. Having a brown guy/girl to do that is like icing on the cake. But lets face it, when you can have Rana/Dhume/Barkha who can be do your bidding for 1% of the cost of an Associate Prof, why rock the boat by increasing the size of pie?
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Personally, a lot of things about this don't tie together. These folks are elite-men/women. They have connections. Their entire raisin dieter is about connections. These extend all the way to institutions like Harvard, without need for hard work. In fact, the ecosystem counts Harvard faculty among them.

Yes the situation is stupid funny, but I don't believe it. Sometimes the easier out of trying to claim for yourself some kind of position you don't have, is to issue a public oops I-wuz-scammed claim. It simultaneously absolves you and wins you 'sympathy' while taking the heat off you. It's a great move to avoid further examination of what happened.

However, in this case, the matter should be probed further, with an open assertion that she's made it all up herself. Make her prove otherwise, and wait for missteps. In reality, something like being fooled doesn't discredit her. But explicitly fraudulent behavior in claiming to be something she isn't - that has much greater potential for long term damage.

The easiest way to do it is the legal way - a formal police investigation that needs all the material to be handed over for investigation. If she's been making this up herself, there'll be pushback... from her.
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shravanp wrote: ...

That's all understood but yet I am not able to gather the logic of this massive scale of idiocy.
Yes, it's unfathomable how people this stupid can be well-compensated, socially well-respected and prominent professionals. Nothing in our upbringing or professional circles even remotely suggests that such a thing can be possible.

It requires a mental adjustment on our part to accept that, yes, there are monumentally stupid and shallow people like this Nidhi who are at the same time rich and famous for being very brilliant indeed.

These people really *are* that stupid. And it says something about the rest of us that they have the last laugh from their perches in the upper echelons of power.
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Does filing of FIRs force GoI to investigate her and NDTV's involvement if any? PILs that Indian citizens are concerned?
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Doesn't surprise me too much. Job scams targeting Indians are well known. Used to start off with a job offer in the Gelf. She's probably out quite a bit of money if this followed the usual job scam route.
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Suraj wrote:
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The easiest way to do it is the legal way - a formal police investigation that needs all the material to be handed over for investigation. If she's been making this up herself, there'll be pushback... from her.
Quite so. If the law permits a cognizable-offence investigation of Republic TV for allegedly manipulating TRP ratings by misrepresenting themselves, then I would think it would also permit what could be construed prima facie as "cheating" by misrepresenting oneself as Harvard faculty.

In real life, I expect that this won't happen. People like Nidhi are too well-connected to the power structure. Any potential investigating authority will blow it off, with, "she already told she was scammed no, what is there?"

Possibly, someone in her circle told her that she is getting the Harvard position and it is a done deal. Maybe as a joke, maybe out of malice, maybe because they believed it themselves. Then she went ahead and plastered the Harvard title all over the place, because that's the kind of people these people are--unbelievably stupid, unimaginably vain, and extremely powerful.

Maybe Harvard got wind of it and told her to cease and desist, and she scrambled to post the phishing story.
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As someone who has studied for and worked at US universities I find it very unlikely that she was unaware for months about it being fake ... the amount of hoops you have to jump through (Applications, interviews , visa approval , I-20 or simiiar official paperwork etc etc ) is staggering and the US Consulate won't grant a work visa until you produce official docs and Letter of Recommendations .

I could believe it had she gotten confused bw a temporary/visiting/guest professor invite and a full time appointment but to get scammed like this with zero actual contact by Harvard is incredulous .Either she's extremely gullible or she did it on purpose both of which cast a huge shadow of doubt over her journalistic integrity

What's even worse is that she spent the last 6 months appearing on TV, interviews,webinars as " associate prof at Harvard" which is a very very misleading thing to claim until you actually started working there .
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She will back in add selling babymilk. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
But think she will try to get some kind conference via some NGO. Just to make up for it. Papa lage howe hei.
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The bigger question is about her self-promotion based on this job scam or the fictitious job offer which she cooked up/imagined. Since last summer she's been ostentatiously going around to TV panels, on news channels , giving interviews, sitting on advisory boards of universities using her "Asst.Prof Harvard Univ" credentials. Even a door-to-door salesman selling washing powder probably wouldn't update their bio/CV until they start their job and begin receiving a paycheck but here we have a "journalist" with 20+ yrs of experience going around the country claiming to be a Asst Professor even before a formal interview or offer letter ! As someone said above these people are unbelievably stupid, incredibly arrogant, egoistic and vain !
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