RATI Foundation

21/05/2026

RATI IS HIRING!

We are looking for a Digital Media Associate to help shape how RATI’s work on gender based violence is communicated and amplified online.

If you have 2 to 4 years of experience in digital media, content or social media work and enthusiasm for RATI’s commitment to building better services and systems that support women, children and marginalized communities in resisting violence and accessing justice, this role is for you.

Location: Mumbai | Deadline: 30th May 2026

Send your CV, cover letter, two recent work samples, and name and contact details of two references to [email protected]

Subject line: Digital Media Associate

Individuals of all ethnic backgrounds, women, LGBTQIA+ persons and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

15/05/2026

RATI has been awarded ’s Champion Level E Seal – Platinum for the third consecutive year.

This recognition reflects a commitment we have held since inception - to open ourselves up to the highest level of scrutiny and to voluntarily embrace the highest standards of public disclosure. In doing so, we affirm that transparency, accountability, and institutional rigour are not peripheral to our work - they are foundational to it.

As GuideStar notes, such disclosure is an important contribution towards strengthening the credibility of India’s nonprofit sector.

We hold this recognition with gratitude, and with deep appreciation for the steady, often unseen work that makes institutional trust possible every day.

07/05/2026

RATI Foundation in conversation with BBC News Hindi ()

AI-modified images are often discussed only through the lens of sexual abuse. But in many cases, the key driver is also shame.
Women and girls do not need to be controversial to be attacked online. Today, simply being visible on the internet can be enough.
A dance video.
A smiling photograph.
A moment of self-expression.
What should be ordinary participation is often met with trolling, abuse, and AI-generated deepfakes designed to humiliate, shame, and push women and girls out of online spaces.
The usual advice is often: “Don’t upload.”
But that is exactly what abusers want — for women and girls to disappear, self-censor, and retreat from public life.
As artificial intelligence becomes easier to access, so does the ability to violate someone’s dignity within seconds.
In this conversation with BBC News Hindi, Uma Subramanian () , Co-Founder and Director of RATI Foundation, speaks to BBC’s Reporter, Shubhangi Misra ( ) about how these tools are increasingly being used to punish women and girls for doing nothing more than existing online.

22/04/2026

Last week the engineers at .tv and the counsellors and social workers at RATI came together.

We are trying to bring together technology, care and on-ground experiences to reimagine digital and online safety.

Something meaningful and interesting is in progress. Keep watching this space to know more.

13/04/2026

WE ARE HIRING!

If you are passionate about creating social impact, we invite you to be part of our team.

RATI is currently hiring for the following roles:
• Senior Research Officer
• Senior Case Manager
• Program Manager - Socio Legal Interventions
• Counsellor
• Junior Case Manager
• Legal Associate

Link to Job Descriptions in the bio

Send in your applications to [email protected] by 23rd April 2026

We are trying to build an inclusive culture to make our office a space where individuals feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves.

03/04/2026

In BBC’s podcast The Conversation, Uma Subramanian from RATI reflects on image-based abuse as it exists today. Stealth filming. Deepfakes. Content that resurfaces long after it has been taken down.

What persists for survivors is not only the image, but its afterlife.

Here is an excerpt from the podcast.
Listen to the full episode “My image was used without my consent” on The Conversation.

Link in bio.

31/03/2026

With the recent passage of the Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Amendment Bill 2026, conversations around gender, identity, and rights feel especially urgent.

In RATI’s second Learning Circle of 2026, we created space to deepen our understanding of these issues beyond surface level awareness. Guest speaker led a discussion that moved from definitions into lived realities, beginning with identity and how gender is understood, expressed, and often questioned within systems that seek clarity where there is complexity.

Drawing from his own journey, Vishal spoke about navigating family, visibility, stigma, and the everyday negotiations that shape q***r lives in India.

As the discussion turned to the bill, it became clear how legal frameworks shape lived experience. They determine who is recognised, who is excluded, and who is left more vulnerable.

At RATI, these spaces are about building the depth of understanding required to work responsibly with communities whose realities are often misunderstood, misrepresented, or erased.

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27/03/2026

24/03/2026

Young people are not just navigating the internet, they are interrogating it.

At Y Talks 2026, that showed up in different ways, through Sameer’s session, where students sat with questions of emotional overwhelm, online pressures, and what it means to stay grounded offline, and through Persis’s debate, where the room leaned into disagreement, unpacking whether restriction, responsibility, or reform is the way forward.

What stood out was the willingness to engage, not perform. To question, not conclude.

Spaces like these matter because they don’t rush young people toward answers, they take their questions seriously.

21/03/2026

There is a certain kind of joy that arrives with festivals, the kind we can wear, hold, and carry with us through the day.

This Eid, we share a little of that with the children and families we work with through new clothes, small gifts, and the simple happiness of getting ready.

It is in these moments that a festival begins to feel like your own, when you feel included, can take part, and no longer feel like an outsider.

For many, this feeling does not come easily. It must be nurtured with care and intention, so there is room for joy, for dignity, and for the everyday experiences that quietly shape a childhood.

RATI wishes you Eid Mubarak

16/03/2026

Decode the Web 2.0 is here.

Today’s term: Ghosting

Ghosting is when someone suddenly stops responding and cuts off communication without any explanation. One day you are talking regularly and the next day the messages stop. Calls go unanswered and conversations are left hanging in silence.

While the term is often used in the context of dating, ghosting can happen in friendships, workplaces, and online communities too. In the digital world it is easy to disappear from a conversation, but the silence can leave the other person confused and searching for answers.

Through Decode the Web 2.0, we break down the language of the internet and the behaviours shaping how we connect online.