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A curated tour of WIB's strongest content — research reports, interactive tools, standout city pages, and our open data hub. Use this as your map if you're new to the site, or as a starting point for press coverage and citation work.

New here? Start with these three.

If you only have time for three pages today, these are the ones that show what WIB does best.

📰 Research The reports that travelled furthest

Lifestyle · Careers · May 2026 · NEW

Best Indian Cities for Remote Workers 2026

36 Indian cities scored across 7 dimensions of remote work life. Bangalore is the safe pick; Indore is the actually-good pick. Includes the relocation playbook (3-month trial, redundant internet, hospital empanelment, community-find-fast rule).

8-min read · 36 cities · Open relocation playbook
Synthesis · May 2026

Metro vs Tier-3 India: A Side-by-Side Reality Check

Direct comparison of 8 Indian metros versus 5 tier-3 cities across healthcare, dining, education, and cost of living. Tier-3 wins by 45% on cost; metros lead by 29 points on hospital NABH accreditation. The relocation-decision logic in one report.

7-min read · Synthesises two prior reports · Cited freely with attribution
Healthcare · May 2026

Beyond the Metros: Tier-3 Hospital Access

40 multi-specialty hospitals tracked across Bhopal, Nagpur, Mysore, Vadodara, and Patna. Headline: NABH accreditation runs at 68% in tier-3 vs 97% in metros — a 29-point quality gap. Cancer care and transplants still pull patients to metros; the AIIMS expansion is changing that.

5-min read · 40 hospitals · 5 cities · Open dataset linked
Food & Dining · May 2026

Regional Cuisine Renaissance: Tier-3 India Dining

50 verified restaurants across 5 tier-3 cities. Headline: regional-anchored restaurants outscore generic multi-cuisine 4.4 vs 4.3. Vinayaka Mylari's butter dosa in Mysore (4.6) is the highest-rated single dish in our entire 605-restaurant dataset.

6-min read · 50 restaurants · 5 regional cuisines
Healthcare · Anchor report

State of Indian Hospitals 2026

The metro cohort baseline — 236 multi-specialty hospitals across 15 Indian cities. 97% NABH-accredited, 12% JCI. The reference report all our tier-3 work compares against.

5-min read · 236 hospitals · 15 metros · Cited by tier-3 pair
Careers · Most shareable

India Salary Index 2026

Realistic CTC ranges by role, city, and 0-15+ years experience. The honest salary map for the 2026 Indian job market. Bangalore-Mumbai-Gurugram-Hyderabad within 10-15% of each other; tier-2 trails by 25-40%.

9-min read · 5 roles · 6 cities · 0-15+ yrs experience

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🎮 Tools Interactive features readers come back for

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Where should I live in India?

6-question quiz scoring against all 36 cities. Shareable results, no signup.

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Compare 2 Indian cities

Side-by-side across 10 dimensions. URL-shareable for any pair of 36 cities.

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Compare 2 Indian hospitals

Pick any 2 of 463 hospitals. NABH status, beds, specialties side-by-side.

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📦 Data Open datasets & developer hooks

CC-BY 4.0

WIB Open Data Hub

140+ free CSV and JSON files covering 463 Indian hospitals and 605 restaurants across 36 cities. Combined datasets + per-city slices. Used by journalists, researchers, and developers. No signup, no API key.

2 combined CSVs + 49 per-city slices + 49 JSON endpoints · Updated quarterly
For developers

WIB Public API

JSON endpoints with documented schema, copy-pasteable code samples (JS, Python, curl), filter recipes, and a roadmap. CORS-enabled. CC-BY 4.0.

Static JSON · CDN-cached · CORS-enabled · No rate limits

🗺️ Cities Standout city pages

Most of WIB's organic traffic lands on city pages. These are the ones that combine substantive data with strong editorial — useful as press case studies.

Delhi · Hospitals Mumbai · Hospitals Bangalore · Hospitals Bhopal · Hospitals Nagpur · Best Saoji Mysore · South Indian Patna · Best Bihari Bhubaneswar · Odia Thali Guwahati · Assamese Vadodara · Gujarati Thali Mangalore · Seafood Bhopal · Bhopali

Browse all 36 Indian cities →

📋 Editorial How we work (for journalists & reviewers)

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Methodology

The 7-step verification protocol for hospitals, 6-step for restaurants. Plus what we don't do.

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The team

Solo founder + AI-augmented editorial. Decision rights, accountability, philosophy.

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Press kit

Logos, fact sheet, founder bio, quotes, methodology — everything a journalist needs.

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What's on my desk now

Active build log, what shipped this month, what's queued next. Updated monthly.

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India glossary

46 plain-English definitions — NABH, sadya, CBSE, biryani vs pulao, and 40 more.

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Editorial process

How posts are written, reviewed, and corrected. Plus the affiliate disclosure.

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