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India's first woman photo journalist
December 11 , 2017
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- Search engine giant, Google, paid homage to India's first woman photojournalist, Homai Vyarawalla, with a doodle on her 104th birth anniversary.
- Homai Vyarawalla who carved a place for her in photojournalism during the pre-independence era, started her career as a photojournalist during the onset of World War II
- Her first published pictures were in the 'Bombay Chronicle' and Majority of her works were published under the name of Dalda 13.
- Her pictures include the first tricolour-hoisting after the Independence, Lord Mountbatten departing from India and Jawaharlal Nehru addressing the crowd after the Independence.
- She was awarded with the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
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