Bengaluru, Apr 15: The New India Foundation (NIF) will award fellowships to 11 scholars and writers this year for a set of non-fiction book proposals chronicling post-Independence India, it was announced Thursday.
The NIF fellowships are awarded for a period of one year with an annual stipend of Rs 18 lakh to each recipient; and include editorial and publishing support for each project. The fellowship enables scholars and writers to write and publish works of non-fiction.
"So far, 22 books written by fellowship winners have been published under the NIF aegis; many of these have become seminal and award-winning works on contemporary Indian history," NIF said in a statement.
Currently in its 10th cycle, the NIF fellowship awardees this year comprise an eclectic mix of journalists, academics and researchers, both young and experienced, with a compelling and wide range of proposals, it said.
The list of awardees was decided by a panel of jury members that included political scientist Niraja Gopal Jayal, historians Ramachandra Guha and Srinath Raghavan, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation Rukmini Banerji, entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani and chairman of Teamlease Services Manish Sabharwal.
The awardees and their tentative book titles include Anjum Hasan ("Shillong: First City of India's Northeast"); Chitrangada Choudhury ("Power, Profit and Protests: Forest Communities on the Frontlines of Environmental Justice"); Jaideep Hardikar ("The Rise and Fall of The Empress"); Jayaseelan Raj ("The Egalitarian Paradox: Dalits and the State in Kerala"); Maya Ratnam ("Dwelling in the Forest: The Government of Nature in Tribal Central India); and M Mohsin Alam Bhat ("Constitutional Culture: Muslims and Popular Constitutionalism in India").
Raza Kazmi ("The First of Nine: The Story of Palamau Tiger Reserve"); Simin Patel ("Irani Restaurants of Bombay"); Sohini C ("The Losers: A History of Women Runners, and Running in India"); Srikar Raghavan ("From Malnad to Mysore: Following the trail of Literature and Activism in Karnataka"); and Suryakant Waghmore ("Is a Post Caste City Possible?: Examining Caste Erasure in contemporary Ahmedabad and Mumbai") complete the list.
Speaking on behalf of the jury, Raghavan said this was an exceptional year for the NIF fellowships as not only over 900 applications were received, but more fellowships are being awarded than ever before.
"The 11 NIF fellows will write books on a remarkable set of topics encompassing cities and forests, law and politics, sports and literature, business and culture - books that promise to transform our understanding of contemporary India," he said.
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Vijayapura (Karnataka), Feb 19 (PTI): A MBBS student was allegedly ragged and assaulted by his seniors at a medical college here, following which authorities have swung into action and have initiated legal action against the culprits, offcials said on Wednesday.
The victim is a second-year MBBS student at Al-Ameen Medical College, and hails from Jammu and Kashmir.
According to official sources, the student has alleged that he was subjected to ragging and physical assault by senior students. The incident reportedly happened on Tuesday evening during a cricket match, when they questioned his presence and demanded that he leave, but he refused.
He was allegedly asked to sing songs and dance for their amusement, and was even threatened.
The district Deputy Commissioner's office in a statement said, the student did not suffer any injuries and that he was physically healthy, and appropriate legal action is being taken against four senior students.
"Regarding the report that a student at Al-Ameen Medical College in Navarasapura village of Tikota taluk being subjected to ragging and physical violence by 4 senior MBBS students of the same college, as per the directions of the Deputy Commissioner, Vijayapura and Tikota Tahsildars and Additional Superintendents of Police met the student who was assaulted, checked him, and inquired his well-being," the statement read.
They have given a report stating that the student did not suffer any injuries and he was physically healthy, it said
The details of the incident have been given to the Principal Secretary to the Government, Medical Education Department, Mohammad Mohsin, and he has asked to provide appropriate assistance to the attacked student and appropriate legal action to be taken against the four senior students who assaulted him.
The Deputy Commissioner's office statement further stated that appropriate legal action is being taken against the students who assaulted him.