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When the first railway engines arrived in India, villagers ran to temples and prayed for protection. Some tried pulling ...
05/09/2026

When the first railway engines arrived in India, villagers ran to temples and prayed for protection. Some tried pulling up the tracks.

In her latest piece for Hindustan Times, our Director Dr. Ranjana Kumari uses that memory to make a point about the technologies we are anxious about today. Societies eventually learn to live with new technology. But progress should never require people to absorb avoidable harm while institutions catch up.

Her argument: trust and safety cannot be organised around the technology of the moment. Policies tied to a single platform or product go stale almost as soon as they are written. What endures are the questions underneath. Who benefits? Who bears the risk? Whose voice shapes the design? Who can seek help when something goes wrong?

She also makes the case for local knowledge as essential evidence, not an optional add-on to global policy. In India, devices are shared, digital literacy varies widely, content moves across many languages, and online risk is tied to caste, class, gender, religion and location. A safety feature built for a single English-speaking user on a personal device can fail entirely here.

This is the premise behind the Trust and Safety India Festival 2026 and its theme, People First. Safety Always.

14 and 15 October 2026 | India International Centre, New Delhi

Read the full article: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/governance/people-first-safety-always-101788585463279.html

Preventing online child sexual exploitation takes more than better systems. It takes young people at the table.We're pro...
02/09/2026

Preventing online child sexual exploitation takes more than better systems. It takes young people at the table.

We're proud to join a GLOBAL COHORT supported by Safe Online!

The Centre for Social Research India and Safe Online are collaborating on an initiative to address technology-facilitated abuse, grooming, and AI-generated risks as young people in India actually experience them, not as adults assume they do.

Through Peer-Champions, we're changing where that expertise sits. The project builds youth-led digital safety clubs, trains adolescents as peer educators, and creates space for young people to learn from each other in language and contexts that reflect their own lives.

Alongside this, we're engaging schools, parents, platforms, and policymakers so that what young people identify reaches the people with the power to act on it. Awareness alone doesn't protect anyone. Response systems do.

More to share as the work takes shape. Together, for a safer internet 🤝

We’re pleased to welcome Snapchat as a Silver Partner for the 2nd Edition of the Trust and Safety India Festival (TASI) ...
01/09/2026

We’re pleased to welcome Snapchat as a Silver Partner for the 2nd Edition of the Trust and Safety India Festival (TASI) 2026.

As India’s only dedicated trust and safety convening, TASI is a civil society-led platform that brings together diverse stakeholders to strengthen dialogue, collaboration, and collective action for a safer digital ecosystem. Building on the success of its inaugural edition, TASI 2026 will continue to create space for meaningful conversations, practical learning, and cross-sector partnerships.

As a platform used by millions of people to communicate, create, and connect, Snapchat brings an important perspective to TASI’s conversations on online safety, youth wellbeing, privacy, responsible platform design, and emerging digital risks. Its experience in building safety features and age-appropriate experiences will contribute to wider discussions on how platforms can create safer and more positive online environments.

This year, TASI will bring together policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, civil society organisations, regulators, youth representatives, and trust and safety practitioners from India and around the world to exchange perspectives, share emerging practices, and work towards common solutions.

📅 14–15 October 2026
đź“Ť India International Centre, New Delhi
đź”— Register now: https://trustandsafetyindia.org/register

We look forward to working with Snapchat and our wider community of partners to strengthen the trust and safety ecosystem and advance safer, more responsible digital experiences in India and beyond.

We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration between the Centre for Social Research India and Roblox, focused on explor...
27/08/2026

We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration between the Centre for Social Research India and Roblox, focused on exploring young people’s experiences in online gaming in India.

As digital spaces continue to evolve, understanding how young people experience and navigate these environments is an important part of the conversation around digital safety and wellbeing.

Through this collaboration, we look forward to bringing together research, perspectives, and dialogue to better understand young people’s experiences in online gaming.

We’re excited to begin this journey with Roblox and contribute to meaningful conversations around young people and digital spaces.

We’re pleased to welcome TP as a Platinum Partner for the 2nd Edition of the Trust and Safety India Festival (TASI) 2026...
26/08/2026

We’re pleased to welcome TP as a Platinum Partner for the 2nd Edition of the Trust and Safety India Festival (TASI) 2026.

As India’s only dedicated trust and safety convening, TASI is a civil society-led platform that brings together diverse stakeholders to strengthen dialogue, collaboration, and collective action for a safer digital ecosystem. Building on the success of its inaugural edition, TASI 2026 will continue to create space for meaningful conversations, practical learning, and cross-sector partnerships.

TP is a global digital business services company with extensive experience across trust and safety, content moderation, fraud prevention, platform integrity, and digital risk management. Its trust and safety work combines human expertise with AI-enabled systems to help platforms detect and respond to harmful, fraudulent, and policy-violating activity at scale.

As a Platinum Partner, TP brings valuable operational and industry expertise to TASI’s conversations on how technology, policy, people, and responsible innovation can work together to strengthen safety and trust across digital platforms.

📅 14–15 October 2026
đź“Ť India International Centre, New Delhi
đź”— Register now: https://trustandsafetyindia.org/register

We look forward to working with TP and our wider community of partners to advance safer, more resilient, and trustworthy digital ecosystems in India and beyond.

Preventing online child sexual exploitation takes more than better systems. It takes young people at the table.We're pro...
26/08/2026

Preventing online child sexual exploitation takes more than better systems. It takes young people at the table.

We're proud to join a global cohort of 30 organizations supported by Safe Online!

Through Peer-Champions, the Centre for Social Research India is building youth-led digital safety clubs across India, running peer workshops and stakeholder engagement to address technology-facilitated abuse, grooming, and AI-generated risks as young people actually experience them.

Together, we're building adolescent-led protection systems for a safer internet 🤝

A life dedicated to advancing women’s rights, gender equality, and social justice.We are proud to see Dr. Ranjana Kumari...
26/08/2026

A life dedicated to advancing women’s rights, gender equality, and social justice.

We are proud to see Dr. Ranjana Kumari, Director of the Centre for Social Research India and Chairperson of Women Power Connect, featured in the Women Who Inspire Asia series ahead of the AWLF International Summit 2026.

For more than four decades, Dr. Kumari has worked to challenge gender-based violence, strengthen women’s political participation, and create greater space for women’s leadership. Her journey is a reminder that leadership often begins by recognising injustice and choosing to act.

From researching dowry-related violence to founding the Centre for Social Research India and authoring Brides Are Not For Burning, her work has consistently turned difficult realities into advocacy, research, and action.

We believe women’s leadership must be supported, heard, and represented at every level.

🌏 AWLF International Summit 2026
đź“Ť Bangkok
📅 16–17 September 2026

Join inspiring women leaders and young advocates from across Asia.

We’re Hiring !The Centre for Social Research India (CSR) is looking for a Senior Project Coordinator to join our team.Ex...
24/08/2026

We’re Hiring !

The Centre for Social Research India (CSR) is looking for a Senior Project Coordinator to join our team.

Experience: 4+ years
Location: New Delhi
Role: Senior Project Coordinator

We’re looking for someone with strong experience in project coordination, stakeholder management, communication, and programme implementation, who can manage multiple priorities and work effectively with diverse teams and partners.

If you’re passionate about working on projects that contribute to women’s empowerment, safety, and social change, we’d love to hear from you.

đź“Ť Location: New Delhi
đź’Ľ Experience: 4+ years
đź“© To apply: [email protected]

Please share this opportunity with someone who may be a good fit.

22/08/2026

Consent does not begin in a courtroom or an HR complaint. It begins in how we raise our children.

At the India Today Woman Summit 2026, CSR Director Dr. Ranjana Kumari joined Niyati Sharma, Smita Bharti and Prof. Madhavi Menon for the session "Why Consent Matters at Home, Work and Everywhere Else."

Her point was direct. In most families, girls are raised to accept, to adjust, to surrender. Boys are raised with entitlement. It happens subtly, often unknowingly, including in homes that consider themselves educated and progressive.

What is shifting is the generation itself. Gen Z and Gen Alpha are redefining these values from inside the family. They are asking a simple question: why me and not him.

At the workplace, consent is frequently taken rather than given. Hierarchy, economic dependence and the fear of losing a job make refusal expensive. Having served on nearly 40 Government of India committees on sexual harassment at the workplace, Dr. Kumari observed that the generation still holding power has yet to internalise one principle: no means no.

And this is not a conversation about girls alone, or about sexual relationships alone. Consent belongs in every part of life, and the work is incomplete until it includes men and boys.

India Today Ranjana Kumari ._ranjanakumari

We’re pleased to welcome the Tech Coalition as a Featured Contributor for the 2nd Edition of the Trust and Safety India ...
21/08/2026

We’re pleased to welcome the Tech Coalition as a Featured Contributor for the 2nd Edition of the Trust and Safety India Festival (TASI) 2026.

As India’s only dedicated trust and safety convening, TASI is a civil society-led platform that brings together diverse stakeholders to strengthen dialogue, collaboration, and collective action for a safer digital ecosystem. Building on the success of its inaugural edition, TASI 2026 will continue to create space for meaningful conversations, practical learning, and cross-sector partnerships.

The Tech Coalition unites the global technology industry in efforts to protect children from online sexual abuse. Through collaboration across the technology sector, research, knowledge-sharing, and the development of practical approaches to child safety, its work brings an important perspective to TASI’s conversations on protecting children online and addressing evolving digital risks.

At TASI 2026, the Tech Coalition’s participation will contribute to wider discussions on how technology companies, policymakers, civil society, researchers, and other stakeholders can work collectively to strengthen child safety and build safer digital environments.

📅 14–15 October 2026
đź“Ť India International Centre, New Delhi
đź”— Register now: https://trustandsafetyindia.org/register

We look forward to welcoming the Tech Coalition as a Featured Contributor and bringing its global experience and expertise into conversations on strengthening child safety across the digital ecosystem.

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