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Homai Vyarawalla

1913 - 2012

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Homai Vyarawalla (9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012), commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist. She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, capturing images of daily life in the city. Vyarawalla worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she retired. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Homai Vyarawalla has received more than 430,824 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Homai Vyarawalla is the 82nd most popular journalist (up from 100th in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from India (up from 749th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Journalist.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

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  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 82 out of 196. Before her are Dan Rather, Norbert Haug, Pierre Brossolette, Dmitry Kiselyov, Dith Pran, and Salima Ghezali. After her are Aleksey Suvorin, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Michaëlle Jean, James Nachtwey, Pauline Pfeiffer, and James Foley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 250. Before her are Ċensu Tabone, Ted Grant, Franz Brunner, Herbert Runge, Cordwainer Smith, and Rudolf Harbig. After her are Oswald Teichmüller, Jacinto Convit, Erich Eliskases, Ellen Albertini Dow, Robert Nisbet, and Fred Agabashian. Among people deceased in 2012, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 283. Before her are Piermario Morosini, Kurt Maetzig, Richard D. Zanuck, Boris Parygin, Ian Abercrombie, and Ċensu Tabone. After her are Mike Kelley, James Mellaart, Alketas Panagoulias, Tibor Csernai, Cordelia Edvardson, and Zig Ziglar.

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In India

Among people born in India, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 598 out of 1,861. Before her are Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Kamal Haasan (1954), Ela Bhatt (1933), and Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858). After her are Mukesh (1923), Saif Ali Khan (1970), Tiger Shroff (1990), Har Dayal (1884), V. S. Ramachandran (1951), and Mumtaz (1947).

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Among JOURNALISTS In India

Among journalists born in India, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 1. After her are Arnab Goswami (1973), and Danish Siddiqui (1983).

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