Zuckerberg is coming to India!

Mark Zuckerberg is coming to India exactly a month after hosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Facebook’s global headquarters in California.

In a Facebook post, he announced to be hosting his next Townhall Q&A in Delhi on October 28. Last month in Palo Alto, Mr Zuckerberg hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a Townhall Question and Answer session. The social media giant has 130 million users in India, and during the Townhall with Modi, Zuckerberg has also mentioned the importance of India in Facebook’s history when it was going through a rough patch. Modi met with the heads of the top U.S. technology companies to ask them to join his “Digital India” and “Make in India” initiatives.

Making the announcement on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg urged people to post their questions in the comments section, getting more than 60,000 comments in just three hours. He said he visited India “in order to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company”. “This is a story that I have not told publicly and very few people know”. “And that is something I have always remembered over the last ten years as we built Facebook”, Zuckerberg had said. The platform was opened for any app developer who wished to include his/her services on it.

In India, Facebook partners Reliance Communications to offer free access to about 30 websites. Facebook has been aggressively trying to market Internet.org/ Free Basics in India, with advertising, SMS, and Facebook-based campaigns, and of course, meetings with political leaders. However, the selective approach of internet.org has invited criticism from various quarters.

The comments ranged from users asking when they would stop getting requests for ” Candy Crush Saga”, a puzzle game played through Facebook, to people wondering when users in India will be able to use the seven different emojis, or “reactions” that the social-networking company rolled out in Ireland and Spain earlier this month.