India, March 27 -- Indian PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan, who self-reported herself to Canada after her student visa was revoked on allegations of 'supporting Hamas', is feeling betrayed by Columbia University.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Srinivasan said she never expected her institution to let her down, but that is exactly what she feels it did.

"I spent five years at Columbia, working - I don't know - maybe 100 hours a week sometimes. I never expected the institution to let me down. But it did," she said in the interview.

Srinivasan, who was pursuing her doctorate in public planning before the Donald Trump administration accused her of 'supporting Hamas' and revoked her visa that was renewed in December last year, is still hope...