New Delhi, April 13 -- The work-life balance debate has once again come to the fore after Supreme Court judge Aravind Kumar, on Saturday, urged young lawyers to refrain from taking weekends off during the initial phase of their careers. He asserted that commitment to one's profession is essential and that capping working hours may not help achieve long-term goals.

"You should be wedded to your profession, and only when you dedicate yourself to what you are doing will the results be encouraging," Justice Kumar said, according to a report in Bar and Bench.

"I appeal to all youngsters-this is what I have seen in Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata-Sundays are non-working, and Saturday evenings are taken off. In Bangalore, we had no holidays," he sa...