Guides, explainers and NRI planning notes

An enhanced monofocal lens is a cataract lens that gives the clear distance vision of a standard monofocal, plus a bit more range at arm’s length. That extra range is roughly where your laptop, car dashboard and supermarket shelves sit. TECNIS Eyhance from Johnson & Johnson and Clareon TruPlus from Alcon are two of the […]

RayOne Galaxy is a cataract lens with a continuous spiral on its surface instead of the rings used in most multifocal lenses. Rayner says the design gives a full range of vision, from distance to near, while keeping glare and halos low. The US FDA approved RayOne Galaxy and Galaxy Toric in late September 2026, […]

A daughter flew back to Melbourne five days after her mother’s cataract surgery last year, having done everything right during the visit — attended the consultation, sat through the procedure, arranged the first follow-up. Then, three weeks later, she called us in a slight panic because her mother mentioned her eye “felt a bit itchy” […]

The question we get most often from NRI families, usually somewhere in the third or fourth email once trust has built up a bit, is simply: “Okay, but what does this actually cost?” It’s a fair question, and one that’s genuinely hard to answer with a single number, because the honest answer depends on the […]

“My father says his eyes have gotten worse, but I don’t know if he needs surgery or just a new glasses prescription” is a message I get from NRI families almost weekly, usually followed by a slightly apologetic “sorry, I know this probably sounds like a silly question.” It isn’t. From abroad, without being able […]

A grandmother near our Lajpat Nagar centre mentioned to her daughter-in-law, visiting from Dubai with her 4-year-old, that the little girl seemed to “look sideways sometimes” when she was tired. The parents had noticed something similar but assumed it was just a habit their daughter would grow out of. It turned out to be an […]

A patient’s son messaged us from Toronto last month with a fairly common scenario: his father had been told he needed glaucoma surgery “soon,” but the family wasn’t sure whether that meant this month or sometime in the next year, and the local ophthalmologist hadn’t fully explained the reports in a way that made the […]

A patient’s daughter called our emergency line from London at 2 am her time last year, after her father in Gurugram described “something like a black curtain” coming down over part of his vision. She’d looked it up while still on the phone with him, found “retina detachment” and “emergency,” and had him at our […]

I had a patient last year whose glaucoma was picked up almost by accident — her daughter, living in the Bay Area, happened to mention during a routine call that their grandfather had gone blind from “high pressure in the eye” decades ago in Punjab, a detail nobody had thought to bring up during her […]

I get this question almost every time an NRI patient books a LASIK consultation during their India trip: “Can I get this done while I’m here for two weeks, and still enjoy the rest of the vacation?” The honest answer is usually yes — but “usually” is doing some work in that sentence, and the […]

We get a version of this question every week from families abroad: “My mother isn’t an Indian citizen anymore — does she need a visa to come in for cataract surgery, and what paperwork do we actually need from you?” It’s a fair question, and one that trips people up more than the surgery itself, […]

A patient’s son called me from Chicago last winter, three days before his mother’s cataract surgery, asking a question I get often from NRI families: “Which lens should we actually pick?” His mother was in my clinic in Lajpat Nagar; he was managing the decision over a WhatsApp call at 11 pm his time. That […]

Every year, the same pattern plays out across Delhi once the rains set in — one person in a household gets red, watery eyes, and within a few days, half the family or the whole office has it too. At our Lajpat Nagar centre, we see a noticeable jump in conjunctivitis cases through the monsoon […]

A patient called our Lajpat Nagar centre on a Sunday evening a few months ago, describing what she called “a shower of black dots” that had appeared in one eye within the space of an hour. She’d had ordinary floaters for years and almost didn’t call, assuming this was more of the same. It wasn’t […]

A patient in her late 50s came to see me at Paschim Vihar a few weeks ago, convinced her blurry vision meant she needed a stronger pair of glasses — again. She’d already changed her prescription twice in eighteen months, and it still wasn’t quite right. It turned out to be early cataracts, not a […]

Every 15th of August, I brace for the same pattern in the ER: a steady stream of two-wheeler riders, most of them young, coming in with a hand cupped over one eye, having no idea a piece of string caused this much damage. Last year, one of them was a delivery rider who’d ridden nearly […]

“Will it hurt?” is usually the first question a patient asks once we’ve confirmed they’re a good candidate for LASIK — sometimes before we’ve even discussed cost or scheduling. I remember one patient, a first-year law student who’d been putting off LASIK for two years purely out of fear of pain, asking me to describe […]

A patient walked into my Lajpat Nagar clinic last month with three browser tabs open on her phone — one for LASIK, one for SMILE, one for something called ICL she’d seen mentioned in a comment thread. She wasn’t confused about wanting to get rid of her glasses. She was confused about which of these […]

As parents we watch our kids’ health carefully. We make sure they eat right, get their shots on schedule and visit the doctor when they aren’t feeling well. But eye health often does not get the same attention, largely because children do not always know or tell that something is wrong with their vision. A […]

The majority of eye problems are easy to see. If you have pain, redness, irritation or blurred vision, you know you need to see an optometrist and where to get the best glaucoma surgery in Delhi. Glaucoma is different. Glaucoma, often called the “silent thief of sight,” can damage the optic nerve gradually in the […]

Are you experiencing blurred vision these days? Do you have tired eyes after working on screens? Do you have headaches, dry eyes or difficulty seeing at night? Many people ignore these symptoms thinking they will go away by themselves. But you have to agree that your eyes are among a few facial features that will […]

For many people, the decision to go ahead with cataract surgery does not happen overnight. It usually starts with small frustrations that slowly become part of everyday life. Reading a menu feels harder than it used to. Street signs seem less clear while driving. Bright headlights at night become uncomfortable. Some people keep changing their […]

Most people rarely wake up one morning and suddenly realise they have cataracts. It usually happens slowly, not in a day or two. If you have observed that the television looks slightly blurry from the sofa or your night driving starts feeling uncomfortable because headlights seem too bright. That’s not all. If you’re reading small […]

Most people rarely wake up one morning and suddenly realise they have cataracts. It usually happens slowly, not in a day or two. If you have observed that the television looks slightly blurry from the sofa or your night driving starts feeling uncomfortable because headlights seem too bright. That’s not all. If you’re reading small […]