S Arzooman Chowdhury | The Business Standard

S Arzooman Chowdhury is an Alumnus of the University of Cambridge. She is a Human Rights and Research Specialist.

There are concerns about whether Bangladesh is infrastructurally and financially ready to take more refugees without ensuring conditions for Rohingya repatriation. Photo: Reuters

Thoughts

Humanitarian corridors: An ideal solution or a mere illusion?

In the IMF, the US has 16% of the votes and veto power over all major decisions, and the global North (Canada, UK, Japan, etc.) has most of the rest of the votes, and the global South, which has 85% of the population, has less than 50% of the vote. Photo: Bloomberg

Thoughts

Can economic democracy emerge from the wreckage of financial colonialism?

Tech-bros like Elon Musk often ignore the fact that climate change poses an ‘existential risk’ to humanity because of their adherence to the longtermist ideology.
Photo: Reuters

Thoughts

Longtermism: How techbros justify real suffering for abstract gains

The outcry of Aynaghor survivors—hundreds of relatives of the disappeared are living, moving testament to the otherness of the past made present and future. Photo: TBS

Thoughts

Never again: Right to memory and memorialisation

Illustration: TBS

Thoughts

Breaking the silence on male rape

Sketch: TBS

Thoughts

Are we ready to tackle 'sadopopulism'?

Sketch: TBS

Thoughts

I am angry: An ode to Audre Lorde