India, Nov. 17 -- In October, 1949, two years after our long-cherished freedom at the "stroke of midnight hour" on 15th August, 1947, our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru undertook his maiden visit to the United States which the 33rd American President Harry S Truman described as "the voyage of discovery of America".

In June, 2025, Justice Surya Kant, who is all set to don the mantle of the 53rdChief Justice of India on 24th November, 2025, embarked on a historic trip to the United States whichfortuitously turned out to be his voyage of discovery of America! Justice Kant is an assiduous student of American law and jurisprudence and the truly inspiring lives of the prodigious American judges and lawyers have influenced him immeasurab...