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New Delhi: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Question and Answer session at IIT-Delhi on Wednesday to connect with Indians, whom he described as "one of our most active and engaged communities" on the social media.


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Around 900 students are expected to attend the Q&A session.
     
India is home to over 130 million users, making it the second largest user base for the world's largest social networking site after the US.


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Before coming to India, he yesterday delivered a 20-minute speech in Mandarin at Tsinghua University in China.


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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.


Zuckerberg yesterday 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.


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Last month in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a Townhall Question and Answer session. "India is personally very important to the history of our company here. This is a story that I have not told publicly and very few people know," he said at the Facebook headquarters on September 27.