Google doodles Homai Vyarawalla, India's first woman photojournalist
Homai Vyarawalla
In the early years of her career, Vyarawalla's photographs were published under her husband's name -- becuase she was a woman
Googlepaid tribute to Homai Vyarawalla, India's first woman photojournalist, with a doodle Saturday.
Vyarawalla was widely known for her photographs of an India transitioning from the British Raj to an independent country.
Hailing from Navsari, Gujarat, Vyarawalla started out as a phootjournalist in the 1930s.
Her first assignments were for the Bombay-based The Illustrated Weekly of India.
Her work portrays a story of the birth and rise of India.
Despite her significant effort at capturing the political life of the nation, Vyarawalla lived most of her life in anonymity.
In the early years of her career, her photographs were published under her husband's name -- becuase she was a woman.
Later, when she moved to Delhi to work with the British Information Services, Vyarawalla published her work under the pseudonym "Dalda 13."
The pseudonym was chosen because was born in 1913, she met her husband at the age of 13, and her first car's number plate read DLD 13.
Vyarawalla's most well-known photographs are of the first flag-hoisting ceremony at Red Fort, the cremations of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawahar Lal Nehru, and one of Lord Mountbatten leaving the country.