Overview
- The New India Foundation announced the four fellows on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, granting each Rs 6 lakh to complete a six-month translation project into English.
- Jayasree Kalathil will translate Adimamakka, the autobiography of Adivasi land-rights activist C. K. Janu, which records indigenous struggles over land in Kerala.
- Mini Chandran will translate Olivile Ormakal, the memoir of Malayalam playwright Thoppil Bhasi that covers political and social shifts between 1948 and 1953.
- Murali Ranganathan will translate Rahul Sankrityayan’s 1934 travel account Tibet Mein Savva Varsh recounting journeys through India, Nepal and Tibet, and Shefali Jha will translate Ibrahim Hussain Jalis’ Do Mulk, Ek Kahani documenting the final year of the Hyderabad state.
- The fellowship covers ten Indian languages and aims to recover regional archival works for wider readership, which could reshape how non-English sources inform India’s modern political and social histories.