An independent editorial team writing about live Andar Bahar for Indian players. We are not a casino. We have never run a table. We get paid when readers click through to operators we recommend, and we’d rather lose that revenue than rank a site we wouldn’t deposit at ourselves.
andarbahar.cc is run by a three-person editorial team split between Mumbai and Bengaluru. We started this site in November 2025 because every existing Andar Bahar review page in India was, frankly, a marketing landing page in disguise. Sites were ranked by who paid the most commission, the rules pages were copy-pasted from Wikipedia, and nobody had actually tested a withdrawal in years.
Aniket Rao (Editor-in-Chief) covers the live studio side. He has spent six years writing about live casino games for Indian publications and personally logs about 200 hours a year on Evolution, Ezugi, and Pragmatic Live tables. He lives in Powai, Mumbai, and most table reviews on this site come from sessions he ran himself.
Pooja Menon (Senior Reviews Editor) runs the operator side. Before this site, Pooja worked four years in payments compliance for a fintech in Bengaluru, which is where she learned to read deposit and withdrawal terms the way most readers can’t. She handles the comparison tables on the where-to-play pages and our quarterly withdrawal audits.
Karan Iyer (Hindi Desk Editor) handles our Hindi-language Andar Bahar content and runs the small-stake withdrawal tests on each reviewed operator. Karan also moderates our Telegram channel and the tip line at tips@andarbahar.cc, where readers send us screenshots of dodgy sites that we then investigate.
Three things, in order of how much time each one takes.
Rules, math, and strategy pages. The deepest part of the site. We explain Andar Bahar at four levels: the basics for a first-time player, the math behind the 2.15% Andar / 1.20% Bahar house edge split, the side-bet edges almost no other site publishes, and the strategic adjustments for Lightning, OTT, and Speed variants. If we publish a number on this site, we have either calculated it from the deck mechanics ourselves or sourced it from a regulator’s certification report. We cite the source on the page.
Operator reviews. We review the four offshore-licensed sites that serve Indian players on Andar Bahar: Funexchange, Playinexch, Mahadev Book, and Reddyanna. Each review is rebuilt from scratch every quarter and includes a live withdrawal test at five stake tiers from ₹500 up to ₹5 lakh. We publish the actual withdrawal times we got, not what the operator advertises. The methodology is on our editorial policy page.
Hindi guides. About 40% of our readers prefer Hindi. Karan writes the Hindi versions of our main pillar pages because translated content reads badly, and a real Andar Bahar player from Lucknow or Kanpur shouldn’t have to wade through Google Translate sludge to learn the game.
We do not operate a casino. We do not take deposits. We do not run tables. We do not have a “VIP host” or a backend. If you land on a page that asks you to deposit money, that page is not on andarbahar.cc.
We also don’t write paid placement reviews. Operators occasionally email us asking to be added to the where-to-play page or to be ranked higher. Pooja answers those emails. The answer is the same every time: ranking is based on the quarterly score, not on commission rates, and we don’t accept editorial input from operators on anything beyond factual corrections to the data we publish about them.
Affiliate referral commissions. When a reader signs up at one of the four operators we recommend, we get paid a commission by that operator. The commission is usually a small share of the casino’s gross gaming revenue from that player. We make nothing if the player deposits and wins. We make money only if the player loses, which is an uncomfortable but honest description of how every affiliate site in iGaming works.
Two reasons this matters for you. First, all four operators we recommend pay roughly the same commission rate to affiliates, so we have no financial reason to push one over the other. Our rankings are based on what we found in the quarterly review, not on commission. Second, because we get paid when readers lose, we have an extra responsibility to write a clear responsible gaming page and to flag the warning signs of problem gambling honestly. We take that obligation seriously.
Three reasons. The site only works long-term if readers trust the rankings. Indian readers are smart and they leave any site that reads like marketing within 30 seconds. And if we publish that Operator X has a 20-minute withdrawal time and a reader’s actual withdrawal takes 3 days, that reader will never come back. So we test every claim, publish the actual data, and update reviews when something changes.
If we ever rank a site higher because they paid us more, we will close this site rather than publish that ranking. So far that situation has not come up, and our SEO traffic is paying the rent without it.
Editorial inbox: editor@andarbahar.cc. Tip line for spotting scam sites: tips@andarbahar.cc. We respond within 48 business hours. More detail on the contact page.
We test all four operators on this site every quarter at five stake tiers from ₹500 to ₹5 lakh. The latest results are on the where-to-play page.