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| A screenshot of PM Modi and Mark Zuckerberg's Q and A session with Facebook employees (video below) |
Staff correspondent, September 27, 2015, NewsCrunch
Narendra Modi and Mark Zuckerberg's town hall meeting at Facebook turned out to be a memorable affair.
As a video recording of the event shows it got pretty emotional. Mark Zuckerberg shared a little-known anecdote of him following his mentor Steve Jobs' footsteps in visiting India seeking spiritual inspiration.
In a response to Zuckerberg's question about his mother, Modi described his difficult childhood and her struggle and choked on his words.
The Facebook employees were eager to interact with the Indian Prime Minister and lobbed easy questions at him.
Facebook has so many Indian employees it looked like a a desi gathering complete with Bollywood songs blaring out of the loudspeakers till the PM arrived.
On the same day when President Xi was making an uncomfortable visit to Silicon Valley - China has banned both Facebook and Google - Modi's charm offensive clearly worked.