Anil Antony is an Indian tech entrepreneur and politician who is a former member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He has served as the Digital Media Convenor of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) and the National Coordinator of the Social Media and Digital Communications Cell of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). He is the son of Indian politician and INC member AK Antony, who served as India’s 23rd Defense Minister. On 25 January 2023, Anil quit the Congress after drawing criticism from party members for a tweet in which he objected to the screening of a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots, India: The Modi Question, which cast Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bad light.
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Wiki/Biography
Anil Kurien Antony was born on Tuesday, December 17, 1985 (age 37 years; as of 2022) and he hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Anil K Antony (right) and politician Chandy Oommen (left) childhood picture
He pursued his Bachelor of Technology degree in Industrial Engineering from Kerala College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET) (2003 – 2007). From 2007 to 2009, he studied Master of Science at Stanford University, California, USA. He played tennis and basketball in college.
Anil K Antony at Stanford University Commencement (2009)
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′6″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family
Anil Anton was born into a Syrian Christian family to a self-proclaimed atheist father. Ak Antony.
parents and siblings
Anil Antony’s father, AK Antony, is an Indian politician and INC member who served as India’s 23rd Defense Minister. His mother, Elizabeth Antony, is an advocate of the Kerala High Court. Before that, he was an officer with Canara Bank. He is also the founder of Navoothan, a charitable foundation. Anil has a younger brother, Ajith Paul Antony, who is an actor; He made his debut as a lead actor in the multilingual crime film Oberoi (2014).
Anil Anton with his family
wife and children
He is unmarried.
Career
Tech
In 2005, he founded the now defunct Torque Technology Solutions, a mobile value-added services provider, in Trivandrum. He then moved to the US where he joined Cisco as a Product Marketing Intern in San Jose, California in June 2008; He worked there for three months. From June 2009 to November 2010, he worked as a marketing manager at Beceem Communications. In November 2010, he joined Alphavista Services Inc as Vice President, Business Development and served there until September 2011. Later, he returned to India and joined Grant Thornton LLP as a business consultant in New Delhi. He also serves as an advisor to Casper Labs in California. He was a director of now defunct companies Skanda Capital Investments Private Limited and Helius Education Private Limited. He became a director of Helius Education in 2011 and Skanda Capital Investments in 2013. In May 2015, he became the founding director of Pythia Data Private Limited. He was earlier associated with 2 companies, Swarna Milk Foundation and Transglobal International Private Limited. In 2022, he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Ernest and Giulio Gallo School of Management, California.
politics
In 2019, he entered politics when he joined the INC. He was appointed as the KPCC Digital Media Convener ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. In 2020, he also became the National Coordinator of the AICC Social Media and Digital Communications Cell. He headed the Kerala unit of Digital Communications INC.
Picture of Anil Anton (right) during the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly Elections
RESIGNATION INC
On 24 January 2023, Anil Anton posted a tweet opposing the screening of a controversial documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots, India: A Modi Question, on the grounds that the BBC’s exposure of Indian institutions undermined Indian sovereignty. In a two-part BBC documentary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shown in a bad light. The documentary was removed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which called it a “propaganda film that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mindset.” The central government’s move drew sharp criticism from opposition parties like INC and TMC for imposing censorship. The documentary was scheduled to be screened at the Congress district headquarters on Republic Day 2023 due to its undeclared ban in the country. Anil’s tweet read,
Despite major differences with the BJP, I think the (Indian) BBC, a state-funded channel (allegedly Indian) with a long history of prejudice, and Jack Straw, the mastermind behind the Iraq war, a view of (Indian) institutions that dangerously prioritize, undermine our sovereignty.
Following this, Anil was criticized by members of his party for his remarks, which were perceived as supporting the BJP, and he received threatening calls to retract the tweet, but he refused to do so. The next day, Anil resigned from the Congress party and shared a copy of his resignation letter on Twitter, which read:
I quit my roles in @incindia @INCKerala. Intolerant calls for the tweet to be revoked by free speech campaigners. I refused. A @facebook wall of hate/insults by those who support the hike to promote love! Hypocrisy is your name! Life goes on. The resignation letter is redacted below. “
I quit my roles @incindia @INCKerala.intolerant calls for a ban on Twitter from free speech campaigners. I refused. @facebook A wall of hate/abuse by those who support the hike to boost love! Hypocrisy is your name! Life goes on. The resignation letter is redacted below. pic.twitter.com/0i8QpNIoXW
— Anil K Antony (@anilkantony) January 25, 2023
Joined the BJP
On 6 April 2023, he joined the BJP in the presence of BJP leaders Piyush Goyal and V Muralidharan and the party’s Kerala unit chief K Surendran. After joining the BJP, Mr Antony said:
All congressional staff believe they work for the family. But I believe I am working for the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a very clear vision to put India at the forefront of a multi-polar world.
Anil Anton joined BJP in April 2023
the chosen ones
- Cuisine(s): Mediterranean, Japanese, South Indian
- Author: Yuval Noah Harar
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, he revealed that he had accepted the Congress appointment as KPCC digital media convener as proposed by MP Shashi Tharoor. Anil seems to be a big fan of Shashi Tharoor.
Anil Antony with Shashi Tharoor
- In 2012, he became the vice president of Navoothan Foundation, a non-governmental organization founded by his mother. At Navoothan Foundation, Anil conducts mobile cancer detection and screening camps and general health camps in various rural and underserved areas of India, provides vocational training to underprivileged women and organizes legal aid and legal awareness camps.
Anil Antony distributes school kits to children of a fishing community affected by the 2018 Kerala floods with Shashi Tharoor and Priya Dutt
- In April 2020, he founded the social organization Parliamentarians with Innovators for India (PII), which served as an action group to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. For this initiative, he was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi National Excellence Award for COVID-19 Warriors in 2021.
- He was part of the Net Zero Fellowship Program in Politics and Governance in New Delhi. The program facilitated a deeper understanding of India’s position and plans to combat climate change.
Anil Anton receives a certificate from the School of Politics for attending the Net Zero Fellowship program in 2022
- He writes regularly for various national newspapers such as The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, The Pioneer, BW BusinessWorld, National Herald, The Week, The Print, Sunday Guardian, Veekshanam, Kerala Kaumudi, Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi.
- He has actively participated in several international young leaders and multilateral dialogues and programmes, including the European Union Visitor Program (EUVP2021) (by the European Parliament and the European Commission), the Australia-India Youth Dialogue 2020 (AIYD2020) and the Indo-German Young Leaders Forum (IGYLF2019). He was also selected by the Japanese government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Japan International Cooperation Agency) as a JENESYS “Future Global Leader” (2017). In addition, he was also part of the Multilateral Dialogue on Security and Foreign Policy in Germany and Israel (2022).
Anil Anton attends the European Union Visitor Program (EUVP)
- A fitness enthusiast, she regularly practices yoga and works out at the gym.
Anil Antony performs yoga
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