Facebook founder visits India
By Bala Shah

Facebook is the hottest social networking site in the world with more than 350 million members.  In India, it is fast catching up with Google’s Orkut. Facebook was founded by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg who is one of the most influential people in the world. In 2008, Techgoss had offered a reward of Rs 10,000 for details of Zuckerberg’s secret visit to India.

On May 8, 2008, Techgoss announced a reward of Rs. 10,000 for a photo of Mark Zuckerberg holidaying in India. The Techgoss reward news was picked up by a number of national American media like Gawker and Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital, as well as some Indian websites. All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher, in response to the Techgoss reward, wrote: “According to sources, Zuckerberg is in India and, in fact, all over the world, on a trip that is mostly for pleasure and contemplation, but also mixing it with some business”.

A number of people emailed and phoned in tips including some from within Facebook.  Most requested confidentiality. But Techgoss never got a photo of Mark Zuckerberg during his visit in 2008.

It seems that Techgoss may have missed him again. DNA’s Rajesh Rao is reporting that Mark Zuckerberg was in India during late December, 2009 and early Jan, 2010

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Facebook's Zuckerberg visits Osho commune

Mumbai: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 25, may have been sitting next to you sipping coffee in a Mumbai or Pune restaurant and you may not even have known.

Zuckerberg, whose immensely popular social networking site has thousands of fans in India, was recently in Pune, visiting the Osho commune, among other places.

His quiet visit to the Osho International Meditation Resort, as the commune is known, stirred intense excitement among the controversial guru’s followers who are preparing to mark his 20th death anniversary on January 19.

“The millions of hits on Osho on the internet and numerous references on Facebook seemed to have evoked Zuckerberg’s curiosity and he visited the commune a few days ago,” Amrit Sadhana, a senior member of the resort’s management, told DNA.
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(Photo: Mark Zuckerberg in Pune)