{"id":296200,"date":"2025-03-25T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=296200"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:23:34","slug":"woman-raising-azadi-slogans-in-viral-video-is-not-ex-columbia-scholar-ranjani-srinivasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/woman-raising-azadi-slogans-in-viral-video-is-not-ex-columbia-scholar-ranjani-srinivasan\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman raising ‘Azadi’ slogans in viral video is NOT ex-Columbia scholar Ranjani Srinivasan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within hours of it being widely reported<\/a> that an Indian PhD scholar at Columbia University named <\/span>Ranjani Srinivasan self-deported after their visa was suddenly revoked by the US government last week, a video of a woman sloganeering in Hindi in favour of a free Palestine at a demonstration went viral on social media. It is claimed that the woman seen in the footage is Ranjani Srinivasan. In the demonstration, the woman leads fellow protesters in chanting \u201cazadi\u201d slogans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Several media houses reported on Ranjani leaving the US after US homeland security secretary Kristy Noem on March 14 shared a video on X<\/a> and wrote, “When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country.\u00a0I\u2019m glad to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self deport.”<\/p>\n

The next day, the Mojo Story (<\/span>@themojostory<\/a>) shared a video collage on X identifying the woman raising the slogans as Ranjani Srinivasan. (archive<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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#WATCH<\/a> | Who is Ranjani Srinivasan? The Indian student at Columbia who self-deported from the USA after her visa was revoked, days after Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest for pro-Palestine protests. #RanjaniSrinivasan<\/a> #ColumbiaUniversity<\/a> #Palestine<\/a> #Israel<\/a> #Trump<\/a> #India<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xvpO7FCviK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mojo Story (@themojostory) March 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mojo Story did a full-length show on the issue which is available on YouTube<\/a>. The sloganeering video was played on the screen from the 15.08-minute<\/a> mark onward.<\/p>\n

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The Pamphlet<\/a>, a YouTube channel with more than 1 lakh subscribers that calls itself \u201ca new age digital media,\u201d put out a video report on Ranjani Srinivasan, calling her a Hamas sympathiser and stating that she was \u2018reaping\u2019 her own doing. At <\/span>0:36 sec<\/span><\/a>, they identified the woman featured in the viral video as Ranjani Srinivasan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Ad03m-4Grw?si=2f2v2zNAlFbYMwkm&start=35]<\/p>\n

X user PallaviCT (@pallavict<\/a>), too, shared the video and wrote “This is Ranjani Srinivasan” and her visa had been revoked because of pro-Palestine slogans. (archive<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is Ranjani Srinivasan,
\nPhD scholar at Columbia Univ,USA<\/p>\n

Her visa was revoked becoz of her
\nAzadi for Palestine slogans<\/p>\n

Now will Stalin & Vijay support this Tamilian 4 her political stand or berat her 4 sloganeering in Hindi?<\/p>\n

Catch 22 situation?\ud83d\ude02pic.twitter.com\/0vz8vLtYdk<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PallaviCT (@pallavict) March 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video was shared on Facebook as well with similar claims.<\/p>\n