How come so many global index are depicting India desperately consecutively for some years. Is this to do with reliability of data and research claims of India? Why, with unique strengths and global leadership, India is not able to revive its potential in research? Decline of independent research and credibility of data appears to be a contributing factor. This book suggests dispassionate review of status of research and reasons for its recent decline. The book contends that Independent and transparent research is best bet for good governance and that it even safeguards from inadequate governments. This book narrates with examples how governments manage and manipulate data and evaluative research. This book is an attempt to review ranking of India by thirty different global index. The book discusses how and why there has been a decline of research. This is second in series on The Third Eye – Independent Research by Speaking Tiger Publisher. The author’s two books earlier (2012, 2019) on Good Governance by SAGE continue to be much referred.