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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicAnkhi Das

Topic: Ankhi Das

‘Disillusioned with Mamata, Trinamool’, Bengal MLA & Ankhi Das’ father-in-law quits politics

Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, father-in-law of Ankhi Das who was Facebook's public policy head in India, says he was hurt by some party leaders’ comments on Facebook row last year.

Ankhi Das quits as Facebook India policy head to ‘pursue public service’

Ankhi Das became the centre of a controversy after a Wall Street Journal article in August alleged she turned a blind eye to hate speech posts by BJP leaders on Facebook.

Facebook didn’t act when BJP violated political ad rules, WSJ now alleges

WSJ report also says Facebook India policy head disparaged Congress, supported Modi in internal messages. But company says her posts taken out of context.

Former civil servants ask Facebook to audit hate speech policy without Ankhi Das’ ‘influence’

The group, including retired IAS officers Harsh Mander and Chandrashekhar Balakrishnan, pull up Facebook for not censoring hate speech in India over business interests.

She’s incapable of doing anything unethical, says Ankhi Das’ father-in-law, a Trinamool MLA

Former Bengal minister Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, who is Facebook executive Ankhi Das' father-in-law, says she is wise and knows how to handle a campaign of 'conspiracy'.

Denounce ‘anti-Muslim bigotry’ — Facebook staff in US, other countries write to company

According to a Reuters report, 11 Facebook employees in the US & other countries have sought ‘more diverse representation’ in the company’s India and other teams.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.