Of Harvard, Obama and UMREEKA: How a boastful Nidhi Razdan made a giant idiot out of herself

Nidhi Razdan has made fairly an embarrassing idiot out of herself. The alleged ‘phishing’ of the previous NDTV Executive Editor has most undoubtedly uncovered her as an obsessive suck-up to the United States of America. It goes with out saying that the provide to Razdan for instructing ‘Journalism’ at Harvard University overjoyed her – like it could anybody. However, such is Nidhi Razdan’s ‘Umreeka’ obsession that she selected to provide an entire miss to any background checks of the folks making the provide to her, or any precise verification of the provide itself.Nidhi Razdan has all the time been a journalist whose loyalties have seemingly lain anyplace however with India. Her latest fiasco with Harvard University solely cements the mentioned assertion. Upon being ‘appointed’ by Harvard University to show journalism to the highest college students of America and the world – Nidhi Razdan’s pleasure was as excessive because the sky. The very considered leaving India to remain and educate a supposed increased civilization the place human rights are revered appears to have overawed the Kashmiri journalist, who on extra cases than one can recall, lamented absolutely the disregard for human rights in India.Needless to say, upon being provided a job alternative by an alleged Harvard University – Nidhi Razdan didn’t care to develop suspicious to the wanted extent, regardless of not receiving any wage for months. Because in fact, a bunch of Americans providing a job, whereas claiming to be from Harvard no much less, may by no means be scamsters. After all, they’re not lowly Indians who would make a residing out of duping folks. Evidently, Nidhi Razdan’s American fetish has induced her plenty of embarrassment, all for nothing.Read extra: ‘No record or knowledge of appointing Nidhi Razdan,’ Harvard University denies appointing Nidhi ever as professor of journalismAnd then, how can we not point out the truth that shortly after her ‘appointment’ by Harvard University, the journalist went round like a town-crier rubbing her new job on the face of all colleagues, friends and naturally – rivals. For Nidhi Razdan, the appointment by Harvard got here as a chance to shove down the throats of her ‘dissers’ the truth that she would quickly be an American citizen, whereas all those that didn’t like her would languish within the hell-hole known as India.The journalist was fast to replace the situation on her Twitter deal with, and shortly after information of her quitting NDTV, Cambridge, Massachusetts might be seen on her Twitter profile as the brand new area of residence. Of course, that she allegedly by no means travelled to the U.S. previously 12 months is a separate debate altogether. To add to Nidhi’s current embarrassment, she even claimed in Twitter replies that she was “teaching at Harvard,” regardless of being in India all of the whereas and never even taking the now-normal on-line lessons.I’m instructing at Harvard :)— Nidhi Razdan (@Nidhi) September 22, 2020Prateek Kanwal, brother of journalist Rahul Kanwal in December final 12 months even introduced that Nidhi Razdan, ‘Associate Professor’ at Harvard had joined his Kautilya School of Public Policy’s advisory board. For the previous eight months, ever since she give up NDTV, Nidhi Razdan has been showing on NDTV and varied different occasions underneath the banner of her being an ‘Associate Professor of Journalism’ at Harvard. This reveals the journalist’s desperation to mission herself as a Harvard professor in India, which in some way locations her on the next pedestal than different lesser mortals of the nation.Read extra: There is one thing extraordinarily ‘Phishy’ about Nidhi Razdan’s Harvard tragedyAt the core of Nidhi Razdan’s misplaced pleasure is a fascination of America and its establishments, and a real sense of disgust in the direction of the Indian state. The similar was evident in her interplay with former U.S. President Barack Obama, whom she heaped praises on solely to get ruined by the person, who denied her the chance to even ask a query. Yet, him being an American and never permitting a journalist to ask a single query didn’t outrage Nidhi or her free-speech warrior colleagues at NDTV.Finally, we can not appear to neglect the truth that Nidhi Razdan impulsively, courtesy her alleged appointment by Harvard University, turned essentially the most sought-after “U.S. elections expert” in India, however the bizarrity of her electoral evaluation. The former journalist, who Prannoy Roy claimed would make NDTV proud earlier than the duo engaged in a riveting session of American pre-poll evaluation, has been successfully decreased to a global joke. The unhappy half actually is that she is being projected by worldwide media as an “Indian journalist” who acquired conned, even whereas Razdan’s model of journalism has no takers in India.After a lot ado about nothing, Nidhi Razdan finds herself scammed by the very folks she relentlessly tried to appease. Her ‘ordeal’ ought to serve for instance to all others like her who appear to have an inexplicable American obsession – don’t fall for the whole lot western. Appreciate your nation, tradition and heritage. Also, respect Indian democracy and its vibrancy.