(If you’re wondering, he didn’t have a party. Facebook, the company of which he is chairman, CEO and co-founder, turned 10 this year. But this year he reached a point in his life when even someone as un-introspective as he is might reasonably pause and reflect. I’ve interviewed Zuckerberg before-I wrote about him in 2010, when he was TIME’s Person of the Year-and as far as I can tell, he is not a man much given to quiet reflection. But he’s also here in search of something less easily definable. Ostensibly, Zuckerberg is here to look at a new computer center and to have other people, like me, look at him looking at it. It is not ordinarily the focus of global media attention, but it is today, because today the 14th wealthiest man in the world, Mark Zuckerberg, has come to Chandauli. A third of the people here live below the poverty line, and the homes are mostly concrete blockhouses. It’s a dusty town, and the roads are narrow and unpaved. This is the one that’s not on Google Maps. India’s a big country, and there are several Chandaulis. ![]() ![]() Handauli is a tiny town in rural India about a four-hour drive southwest of New Delhi.
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