New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that his partner Shivon Zilis is "half-Indian" and that one of their children's middle name is 'Sekhar', chosen in honour of Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

"One of my sons with her is, his middle name is Sekhar, after Chandrasekhar," Musk said during an interview with investor and entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath on his show People by WTF.

When asked whether Zilis had spent any time in India, Musk explained that she was given up for adoption as a baby and raised in Canada. "I think her father was like an exchange student at the university, or something like that. I'm not sure of the exact details, but, just kind of thing where I don't know... she was given up for adoption," he sai...