'What love can motivate us to build': Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg marvels at Taj Mahal

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the Taj Mahal in Agra on Tuesday ahead of the Townhall Question and Answer session at IIT-Delhi which will be held on Wednesday. Zuckerberg put up a Facebook post with a photo of him looking at the Taj Mahal in Agra. “It is even more stunning than I expected. It’s incredible what people can build – and what love can motivate us to build,” Zuckerberg said in his post.

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.It is… Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on  Tuesday, October 27, 2015

He added that he had always wanted to see the Taj Mahal. The Facebook founder is holding the Townhall Question and Answer session to connect with Indians, whom he described as “one of our most active and engaged communities” on the social media. “More than 130 million people use Facebook in India. I’m looking forward to hearing directly from one of our most active and engaged communities,” Zuckerberg had written on a previous Facebook post. “If you have a question, please ask below in the comments. To vote for a question, just like it. I’ll be answering questions from across Facebook as well as from a live audience at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi,” Zuckerberg had said. [caption id=“attachment_2484946” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Mark Zuckerberg admired the Taj Mahal. Image courtesy: Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook[/caption] Last month in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg had 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 had said at the Facebook headquarters on 27 September. “Early on in our history, before things were really going well and we had hit a tough patch, and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook and thought we should sell the company, I went and saw one of my mentors, Steve Jobs, and he told me that in order to reconnect with what I believed is the mission of the company, I should visit this temple that he had gone to in India early in his evolution of thinking about what he wanted Apple and his vision of the future to be,” Zuckerberg had said. “So I went and I traveled for almost a month and seeing the people, seeing how people connected, and having the opportunity to feel how much better the world could be if everyone had a stronger ability to connect, reinforced for me the importance of what we were doing. And that is something I have always remembered over the last ten years as we built Facebook,” the Facebook CEO had said. (With inputs from PTI)