Now, well into the eightieth year of life, Justice Debi Singh Tewatia takes a reflective look at his past – fully mindful that “at this stage of life, there can hardly be any learning of lessons from mistakes, if any committed in the past, nor self-witnessed elation from achievements, if any”. Set against the backdrop of India’s pre-independence days and its traumatic partition, it is a meticulously detailed, nostalgic memoir of a man who legitimately claims to the first Barrister-at-Law, first Advocate General, first High Court Judge, and the first Chief Justice of High Court from the Hindu Jat Community of India. Reminiscing the long, tortuous, gone-by years of life, with its share of human joys and heartbreaks, the autobiography shows how an indomitable spirit can triumph against all odds.

Debi Singh Tewatia: Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn UK, (1955), has held the position of Chief Justice -- first of the Punjab and Haryana High Court; and then of the Calcutta High Court.