New India Foundation Fellowship 2022

The candidates will be selected based on the following criteria - 

• Applications will be invited through select advertising by the NIF in leading journals and online platforms.
• The NIF Trustees shall assess the proposals and prepare a shortlist of eligible candidates. 
• The shortlisted candidates will be subject to a thorough interview process with a jury consisting of the NIF Trustees as well as other eminent persons from the worlds of scholarship, business and social service. 

• The fellows will have the opportunity to choose to write a memoir, a detailed reportage or a broadly academic study. 
• The fellow will undertake to provide the completed manuscript to the Publisher within a period of 12 (twelve) months from the commencement of the Fellowship with the NIF.
• All Applications will be checked for eligibility by the Trustees. Any discrepancies during such eligibility checks may lead to the disqualification of the candidate. 
• Candidates will have to give a declaration that all the outputs and materials are originally created by them and that they have not copied any content.
• The fellowship proposals should be oriented towards the final publication of the book, and a clear road map to this eventual destination is to be outlined by the applicants.  

Note - For more information, kindly refer to the 'Fellowship Detail Document'.