India Today
On some evenings in Petwar village, as mustard fields faded into a soft Haryana dusk, a schoolteacher would return home and tell his young son why knowledge was the truest form of wealth. The boy listened.
He didn’t yet know that those quiet discussions in a modest household, far from the big courts and louder capitals, were laying the emotional and intellectual foundation for a life that would one day carry him to India’s highest judicial office.
That boy was Surya Kant, now sworn in, effective November 24, 2025, as the 53rd Chief Justice of India, appointed under Article 124(2) of the Constitution.
His story is a long walk from rural schools to the Supreme Court bench, and a testament to what persistence, humility, and scholarship can build in modern India.
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