Facebook, baba and Christmas bhandara
By debashish • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Life AroundBy now we all know that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in India. Speculations were ripe on his planning an Orkut killer product targeted specifically for Indian net users. Gossip website Techgoss had declared a bounty for his pictures and yet it seems nobody really knew why he was here.
Valleywag reports that Mark was actually here to follow on the footsteps of giants and take blessings from his spiritual guru Baba Neem Karoli. You & I may have never heard of this Baba, but he has been an inspiration for people like Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs and Google’s Larry Page, to name a few. Apparently Baba, who is actually knows as Neeb Karori in India, likes his Amreekan name of Neem Karoli better. He even has websites booked for all versions of his name at http://www.neemkarolibaba.com, http://www.neebkaroribaba.com and http://www.neebkaroribaba.org. With high profile clientèle from Silicon valley at his disposal, Baba can’t afford to be off line, anytime. So apart from all other things there is even a Christmas Bhandara in his ashram.
So what did Mark actually ask Baba for? If he had an inkling of the scalability issues Twitter is facing, he would have asked for some tips to deal with ever growing userbase. But probably he just sought blessings for a win over arch rival Orkut. But who would Baba have favored from his disciples: Larry and Mark? Well, it all depends on what they offered to the divine Baba 
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I think the person who wrote this has a very sick and tainted view of spiritualism and mystic India. AND HAS no knowledge of who Neem Karoli Baba is or what his teachings were. Journalism calls for knowing your facts before talking nonsense. I think Debashish should be packing his bags and making a trip to the Ashram and perhaps he would be inlightned. India is a secular country incase your forget and whats wrong in a Guru celebrating all occasions. It is people who havea sick mantality like you who are pulling India back. I think we as Indians should be proud that IT gurus are turning to our age old philosophies and teachings tought in Ashrams.