The travel bugs among us are all too familiar with how international travel with an Indian passport can more often than not be a particularly nasty pain. Those of us who have ever planned a trip with friends that are foreign nationals would really know this pain. The stinging injustice of having to jump through hoops before being allowed into a new country, really makes you wonder, right? Now sitting at number 85, the Indian passport was ranked at number 48 at a certain point last year!

The most recent rankings on the World Passport Index reveals that Germany is in fact the world's most powerful passport to hold.

If you like to travel, there's no document that would be a better friend to you than this little red booklet with 'Deutschland' printed on it - with it's super-special ability to let you freely enter about 177 countries in the world with at most a small fee along with a visa-on-arrival. That's how easy life is for a German passport holder.

The Indian passport, on the other hand, isn't nearly as powerful.

The passport that fares lowest on the World Passport Index is Afghanistan, and not far behind at the bottom are Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia.

The holders of these passports can only visit 25-30 countries with freedom.