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Sagarika Sengupta

Consultant Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Sagarika Sengupta

Sagarika Sengupta is Consultant with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

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Rant Control / Shein Circularity Commentary
Corporate sustainability language has evolved beyond grand ecological promises into something harder to challenge—the rhetoric of everyday pragmatism and consumer common sense.

Rise and Shein: The Circularity Report That Laundered a Business Model in Plain Sight

  • Subir Ghosh

30 March 2026
Rana Plaza / NGO Funds Analysis
More than a decade after one of the garment industry's worst industrial disasters, questions of accountability have shifted from factory owners and brands to the institutions that managed the humanitarian response.

Rana Plaza: The Moral Economy of Catastrophe and Who Collected Its Dividends

  • Richa Bansal

26 March 2026
 
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State of Sourcing / China Angle Report
A decade of deliberate diversification has redistributed apparel assembly across multiple countries, without meaningfully reducing dependence on Chinese upstream supply chains.

The Sourcing Story: Industry Rewrote Its Geography Without Rewriting Its Dependence

  • Richa Bansal

7 April 2026
Rethinking Circularity / Garments Apart / I Feature
Where performance apparel meets its limits, the real question is not what a garment is made from, but how it was conceived to end.

Four Partners, One Jacket, and a New Logic for End-of-Life

  • Subir Ghosh

6 April 2026
 
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Recycling Crisis / Panipat Hub Report
Recycling at industrial scale carries environmental costs that certification frameworks do not always reach—particularly when residue management remains informal and largely invisible to regulators.

Panipat Recycles the World's Clothes but Not Its Pollution, Contends Ground Report

  • Richa Bansal

5 March 2026
Greenwashing / The Tanja Story Interview
Consumer complaints in Denmark prompted scrutiny of how fashion companies frame sustainability in marketing and public communication.

First Person: How a Danish Researcher Forced Fashion to Confront Its Greenwashing Compulsion

  • Subir Ghosh

6 November 2025