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Editor's note: Until she got entrapped in exactly the kind of scandal she was trained to avert, Ankhi Das’s career was unparalleled. Few women in India can be associated with the kind of influence, sway and power that Das exercised, both inside and outside of the tech ecosystem. Das had a family deeply rooted in politics and her career of more than two decades was spent at firms that are three of the biggest names in the country’s legal and tech sectors—Amarchand Mangaldas, Microsoft India and, finally, Facebook India.   Das shone the most at Facebook, where she led the public policy team for close to a decade. Facebook India saw three managing directors in that time, but there was only one public policy chief. It’s no secret that she was the most prominent executive the social media company had here—for a while, she was Facebook in India.  Until she wasn’t anything. A news report in The Wall Street Journal last year accused Das of political bias and not applying Facebook’s hate speech rules to certain right-wing politicians and individuals to protect Facebook’s …