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A Harvard Scam and the Best Podcasts of 2021: The Week in Narrated Articles - The New York Times

Last updated Friday, December 17, 2021 13:58 ET , Source: NewsService

This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them.

The New York Times’s

narrated articles are produced in collaboration with Audm, an audio app that produces great read-aloud journalism. To listen to more stories from The New York Times and other top publications, download the Audm app on the App Store or the Play Store. For more details, visit audm.com.

Nidhi Razdan was all set to travel to Harvard University to start a teaching job, and a new life. A famous Indian news anchor at the apex of her career, Ms. Razdan believed she was getting a dream ticket out of an almost unbearably toxic media atmosphere in India.

She had freely shared her most important personal information with her new employer — passport details, medical records, bank account numbers, everything. But when she swiped open her phone in the middle of a January night, she read the following message, from an associate dean at Harvard:

“There is no record of, nor any knowledge of, your name or your appointment.”

The email closed: “I wish you the best for your future.”

For over a year, prominent women in India, including journalists, were reeled into a labyrinthine online scam that offered jobs and opportunities with Harvard University. Who targeted them, and why, is a mystery.

“I am not a religious person, but I revere Christmastime as a secular season centered on food and family — two of my favorite things,” writes Eric Kim. “...



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