RKRakesh Kumar Barikinunrecorded.in·Jun 5 · 13 min readWhy Is Imported Coal Better Than Indian Coal? The Real Reason India Still Imports CoalIndia sits on roughly 361 billion tonnes of coal reserves the fifth largest in the world. The country mines more than 900 million tonnes of it every year. Coal powers about 70 percent of India's elect00
RKRakesh Kumar Barikinunrecorded.in·May 31 · 11 min readPower Failure in India: Why A Country That Exports Electricity Still Can't Keep Your Lights On?The fan stops mid afternoon. The room goes silent. Your phone is at 11%. Outside, it is 44°C and climbing. You wait. Five minutes. Twenty. An hour. This is not a village in 1987. We are talking about 00
RKRakesh Kumar Barikinunrecorded.in·May 23 · 10 min readThe Attention Economy: How Big Tech Turned Human Focus Into $ 1.2 Trillion Business Picture the last time you sat in a room with nothing demanding your focus. No notification. No tab open. No sound from a pocket. Try to remember how long that lasted. If you are struggling to recall, 00
RKRakesh Kumar Barikinunrecorded.in·May 15 · 10 min readYour Grandfather Had One Job. You Have Five and Still Feel Behind.Picture your grandfather. Not the old man in the photograph with the oiled hair and the serious expression picture of him at 22. Same age as you, maybe. He just got a government job. Clerk at a distri10
RKRakesh Kumar Barikinunrecorded.in·May 12 · 8 min readIs India's GDP Growth Overstated? The Controversy Behind India's Economic NumbersIndia’s GDP growth numbers are once again at the center of a major economic debate. While government data suggests strong economic expansion, several economists, researchers, and international institu10