I don’t understand. Are you saying people are claiming she made the whole thing up and was just going around saying she was an associate professor at Harvard?
To be honest, NDTV is one of the top English channels in India and Nidhi Razdan is a very well respected and recognized journalist.
It makes no sense for her to fake all of this for some "clout" as some on twitter suggested - she does not need it. Unfortunately there is a lot of cynicism for anything media (and in turn politics) related in India and people love to speculate.