Globe-trotters are dime a dozen but India’s Amit Doshi is a jet-setter in a class, or rather, ‘glass’, apart. The 58-year-old senior company executive based in Ahmedabad city in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat holds the world record for possessing the largest collection of shot glasses used for measuring spirits.

   In a specially-made 10-feet-by-4-feet double-sided glass cabinet at his home, scores of neatly-arranged small, sparkling glasses from all over the world vie for attention. Doshi has, indeed, acquired as many as 550 unduplicated shot glasses from 95 countries during his official and personal foreign trips over the past 20 years, to be honoured and registered by the exclusive, international Golden Book of World Records. Since the whole jingbang comprising eye-catching nip glasses of all types—pony, tall, fluted, cheater, rounded and what have you—cannot be accommodated even in....