They used to write worse, much much worse stuff.
@FalconSlayers once posted their commentary on conclusion of the BD liberation war; they used to consider India a global pariah. Will never forget how WaPO was literally 'campaigning' for INC in the run up to the 2014 LS polls. At least they are not engaging in poverty pornography anymore. I remember how the BBC was subtly mocking the GoI for panning HSR corridors and included a pic of an old metre gauge trainset to depict the 'dilapidated' conditions of Indian railways.
Western left-liberal media was never pro-India and it will never be. And no it has nothing to do with the so-called economic might; they did not stop reporting negatively on Singapore and Malaysia, decades of world-beating economic growth notwithstanding.