Elon Musk Reveals Partner’s Indian Roots, Son’s Middle Name “Sekhar” as Homage to Nobel Laureate

Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 03:15am on 01 Dec 2025,Monday International

In a rare personal revelation on the podcast hosted by Nikhil Kamath, Musk disclosed that his partner, Shivon Zilis, is half-Indian. He further shared that one of their sons carries the middle name “Sekhar”, chosen in honour of Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. Musk explained that Zilis grew up in Canada after being adopted as a baby while her Indian heritage comes via her biological father, reportedly an exchange student in Canada. 

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