New Delhi, July 13 -- Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai on Saturday delivered a personal and practical address to the graduating batch of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, encouraging students to embrace the legal profession with resilience, honesty and balance, rather than chase validation through debt-heavy foreign degrees or relentless comparisons. Ditching grandstanding for warmth, the CJI gave the graduating class a pep talk that blended wisdom with wit. "There is no straight path in law.It demands, and it keeps demanding," said Justice Gavai. One of the most striking takeaways was his advice on foreign education. "Go," he said, "but with purpose, not pressure." In a candid appeal, he advised students not to take loans of Rs.50-70 lakh for an overseas degree. "A foreign degree alone is not a stamp of your worth.You don't need to brand yourself abroad to be worthy. Sometimes, building your work here is the wiser bet." A portion of that loan, he pointed out, could instead help start an independent practice. Learning has no age bar, said the CJI, adding one should go they can afford to go, and not when the world tells them to.htc...