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.
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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.
CHILDHOOD IN PETWAR: ROOTS IN HUMBLE SOIL
Justice Surya Kant was born on February 10, 1962, in Petwar, Hisar district.
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