Have you seen these iconic photographs from the past? (below) From the historic conference on Partition, Mountbatten’s final salute before leaving the country, and the country’s very first Republic Day parade to the arrival of the Dalai Lama in India, have you wondered who captured these iconic moments in Indian history? That would be none other than Homai Vyarawalla, the first Indian woman photojournalist.

Popularly known as Dalda 13, Homai Vyarawalla was born in 1913 in Gujarat into a traditional Parsi family. An iconic figure of the 20th Century, Homai was one of those photojournalists who was a witness to the birth of India as an independent nation and managed to capture the same. At a time when photography used to be an extremely male-centric career, not only did Homai manage to brea

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