Lights Out

Lights out deals with the six months of the author's gradual, incurable and rather debilitating process of going blind (having seen the world normally until that point), the impact of slow loss of vision, the total cluelessness of the situation and how he overcomes the condition. The author suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that affects about one in 300 in india and other developing countries. Most patients experience blindness quite suddenly and reel from its impact. The book details the difficulties of explaining such a condition to a society that is ignorant of anything like that (despite the widespread nature of genetic eye disorders in india) and how such an unexpected limitation can be turned into an inspiration (the author went on to become a journalist).