Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to host townhall in IIT Delhi today

October 28, 2015

New Delhi, Oct 28: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will host a townhall at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi on Wednesday where around 900 students are expected to attend the Q&A session. The event will begin at 12 noon.

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India is home to over 130 million Facebook users, making it the second largest user base for the world's largest social networking site after the US.

 

The next Townhall Q&A with Mark will be in Delhi, India, on Wednesday, October 28 at 12pm IST (11:30pm Tuesday Pacific...

Posted by Q&A with Mark on Friday, October 16, 2015

Before coming to India, on Monday Zuckerberg delivered a 20-minute speech in Mandarin at Tsinghua University in China. The young billionaire, who is married to Chinese-American Priscilla Chan, had set himself the goal of learning Mandarin in 2010. After his speech, he shared his accomplishment with his followers on Facebook along with a a video of the speech with English subtitles.

"I just gave my first ever speech in Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing -- on why you need a strong sense of mission to change the world.

"This was also my first real speech in any language sharing how I started thinking about Facebook's mission, what has kept me going through challenging times and what our mission means now looking ahead for our community of 1.5 billion people," he wrote.

Zuckerberg had joined the board of Tsinghua's School of Economics and Management last year. He had last month conversed with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mandarin at a meeting with technology chiefs in the US. Facebook is banned in mainland China and remains untapped for Facebook that has over 1.3 billion users globally.

Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday began his trip to India with a visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra and described it as "even more stunning" than he had expected.

Zuckerberg, who arrived in India to deepen links with a country that is home to the largest number of Facebook users outside the US, said he had "always wanted to see" the Taj Mahal.

"I'm in India for our Townhall Q&A tomorrow, and I decided to visit the Taj Mahal. I've always wanted to see this," he said in his Facebook post. He described the country's most-photographed and photogenic monument as "even more stunning than I expected.

It's incredible what people can build -- and what love can motivate us to build." He also posted picture of him sitting in front of the Taj Mahal that was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in the 1600s.

The post already has close to 1 million likes, 20,000 comments and 19,000 shares on Facebook.

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