No civ is designed to found every time (except byzantine of course), but it's pretty clear that block of religious civs (like Ethiopia, Spain, India, Maya, Celts) are designed to found more often than others, and I don't think the current India really does that.
Very few of the pantheons that India can pick actually does anything reasonable before most other civs would have already gotten a pantheon. Yeah sure, they get the first pick, but they also have to blind-pick it, not really knowing what would do better in the game.
All I am asking is that you consider an alternative. I'm not suggesting changing the Indian UA so that it guarantees a religion every game, I'm just asking for a more interesting alternative to the instant-pantheon thing, that probably ends up being worth more than the instant pantheon eventually, but not right off that bat.