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https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/columbia-university-betrayed-me-indian-phd-student-ranjini-srinivasan-who-self-deported-to-canada-8025361#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll
I am an Indian living abroad. My advice always remains the same: please feel free to put out a couple of harmless tweets/insta stuff or whatever that might act as a pin on some peoples' pride, but don't get into this protest nonsense. Not worth it. You are there to study/work. Do all that stuff, get yourself secured, get your LPR/PR/ILR (or other equivalent) statuses fixed up, probably try to even get a foreign passport under your belt if you can and then get into this funny business if you really think that this will help (which BTW it won't). If you go overseas to do the same sorts of nonsense as in India, it ain't gonna work for you. Columbia did what it was supposed to do (I have never been there, never intend to go so please don't count me as a fan). Just keep your head down and carry on with your life, nobody'll mess with you.
"On April 30, there was a department picnic at Riverside Park, which runs alongside Columbia University. I went to the picnic with some cake and cookies and was returning from there when I, along with my colleagues, realised that the whole perimeter was barricaded. There were many – around 200 – New York Police Department (NYPD) officials who were roaming around there. We circled the place for over an hour, and I finally tried to get to my residential place which abuts the university. But then the police picked me up in the melee, even though I was not actively trying to be part of the protest."