Introduction -- Preoperative evaluation and preliminary considerations -- Manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) techniques -- Complications and their management -- Recent advances and future considerations.

CD contents- CD 1: Small incision planned extra / LL Fry -- Caveats and complications avoidance / LL Fry -- Small incision sutureless temporal approach extra capsular cataract surgery / G Tabin, S Ruit -- Manual phacofragmentation-a technique through 3.5mm scleral tunnel incision / FJ Gutiérrez-Carmona -- Manual phacofragmentation-a new technique in cataract surgery / FJ Gutiérrez-Carmona.

CD contents- CD 2: Sutureless cataract surgery with nucleus extraction--fish hook technique / A Hennig -- Blumenthal's technique in MSICS- a 100% approach / N Trivedi -- Phacosandwich technique in SICS / K Singh -- Phacofracture technique in SICS / K Singh -- Blumenthal's technique- my experience / Y Shah -- Creation of hard cataract for practising ECCE and SICS / SK Pandey.