Applications for Round 3 of Translation Fellowship by New India Foundation to Close on December 31st 2025

The New India Foundation (NIF) will soon be closing applications for the third round of its NIF Translation Fellowship for the 2025 session. Inviting applications from translators across the country, applications opened on August 1, 2025, and the last date to apply will be December 31, 2025.

New India Foundation’s Translation Fellowships support the translation of significant non-fiction works from Indian languages into English, expanding access to Indian-language literature and deepening understanding of Independent India.

The Fellowship offers a six-month grant of ₹6 lakhs each to support fellows to translate a non-fiction work originally written in one of ten Indian languages, from 1850 onwards: Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil, and Urdu.

Among the winners of the first edition of the Translation Fellowship (2022) is Hemang Ashwinkumar, whose translation of The Dawn of Life, MK Gandhi in South Africa by Prabhudas Gandhi released in November 2025.

The Jury for these fellowships this year includes the NIF Trustees: political scientist Niraja Jayal Gopal, historian Srinath Raghavan, partner Trilegal Rahul Matthan, and entrepreneur Manish Sabharwal alongside the Language Expert Committee in all 10 languages, comprising of esteemed bilingual scholars, professors, academics and literary translators.