About
Times of Better Bharat tracks India’s position on 140 global and domestic indices and publishes a daily edition written from that data.
Where we stand
We have one allegiance: India. We belong to no party and no camp, left or right. Our criticism is constructive — meant to strengthen the country, never to diminish it — and we press, as citizens, on the problems no party will own. Read our stand in full.
Our editorial line
An Indian opinion paper that argues, from a rooted and self-confident standpoint, for the unity, dignity and strength of Bharat. We take a clear view and defend it — but we state as fact only what a named source reports, we mark a judgement as a judgement, and we argue against ideas, policies and specifically-evidenced actors, never against any faith, caste, region or community. Where a claim or a reading of history is contested, we argue it as a case to be tested, not as a settled verdict.
That matters here more than it would elsewhere. India ranks 38th in the world on innovation and 176th of 177 on environmental performance. A publication that prints the first and buries the second is a brochure, and readers work that out quickly.
Why some figures are marked
Every figure on this site carries a confidence marker. Most are simply the publisher’s own number. Some are labelled contested, and a few pending. This is not hedging — it reflects what the sources actually say:
- India’s economy is reported as both the 4th and the 6th largest in the world, by reputable outlets, for the same year. Both trace back to IMF data; they differ because of a currency move and a base-year revision, not because output changed.
- The Henley passport ranking was published as 75th, 78th, 80th and 81st within a single year, because the index is updated through the year and each update gets reported as if annual.
- Two different cities were each correctly named India’s cleanest in 2024–25, because that survey introduced a separate league for repeat winners.
- The Economist Intelligence Unit stopped publishing country-level Democracy Index scores, so we show no recent figure rather than repeat an uncorroborated one.
Where the numbers come from
ACI Worldwide (with GlobalData) · Barro-Lee, Lee-Lee & UNDP, via Our World in Data · Brand Finance · Cable.co.uk (now hosted at BestBroadbandDeals.co.uk, Existent Ltd) · Concern Worldwide & Welthungerhilfe · EF Education First · Economist Intelligence Unit · Ember & Energy Institute, via Our World in Data · Ember, via Our World in Data · Energy Institute, via Our World in Data · FAO, via the World Bank · Freedom House, via Our World in Data · Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute and Climate Action Network International · Global Forest Watch, via Our World in Data · Henley & Partners · Hurun Research Institute · IMD World Competitiveness Center · IPU, via Our World in Data · IQAir · ITU, via World Bank · Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) · International Budget Partnership · International Monetary Fund · International Telecommunication Union (ITU) · Legatum and the Prosperity Institute (formerly Legatum Institute) · Lowy Institute · Ministry of Road Transport & Highways · National Crime Records Bureau · Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · Ookla (Speedtest) · Oxford Insights · Portulans Institute · Reporters Without Borders · SIPRI, via the World Bank · Social Progress Imperative · The Heritage Foundation · Times Higher Education (THE) · Tortoise Media (2019-2024 editions); The Observer (2025 edition) · Transparency International · UN IGME, via Our World in Data · UN SDSN & Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre · UN Tourism, via Our World in Data · UNCTAD, via Our World in Data · UNCTAD, via the World Bank · UNDP · UNDP Human Development Report Office and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) · UNDP, via Our World in Data · UNODC, via Our World in Data · United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government · United Nations Department of Peace Operations (UN Peacekeeping) · V-Dem, via Our World in Data · WHO, via Our World in Data · WIPO · World Bank · World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators) · World Bank / FAO · World Bank / ILO · World Bank / IMF · World Bank / ITU · World Bank / MoSPI · World Bank / NSF · World Bank / UIC · World Bank / UN Population Division · World Bank / UNESCO · World Bank / UNICEF · World Bank / WHO · World Bank / WHO-UNICEF · World Bank / WIPO · World Bank Global Findex · World Bank, via Our World in Data · World Economic Forum · World Justice Project · World Prison Brief, Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (Birkbeck, University of London) · World Prison Brief, via Our World in Data · World Trade Organization (WTO) · Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
How articles are written
Articles are drafted by a language model working only from figures already in our database and from primary-source press releases, under the same stand as the rest of this publication. A model may not introduce a number that is not in the record, and the sources it used are printed under every piece so you can check the claim yourself.