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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 419,804 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Homai Vyarawalla is the 101st most popular journalist (down from 91st in 2019), the 753rd most popular biography from India (down from 696th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 101 out of 127Before her are Frances Benjamin Johnston, Sofía Ímber, Geraldo Rivera, George Padmore, Daniel Schneidermann, and Sydney Schanberg. After her are Peter Arnett, Arbana Xharra, Anja Niedringhaus, Amy Goodman, Peter Jennings, and Tucker Carlson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 336Before her are Annalisa Ericson, Marian Marsh, Jimmy Van Heusen, Ferdinand Kiefler, Gardnar Mulloy, and Jean Capelle. After her are Alice Marble, Macdonald Carey, Henry Banks, Luis Taruc, Adrian Quist, and Duane Swanson. Among people deceased in 2012, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 401Before her are Adam Yauch, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Ronald Stretton, John Connelly, Joel Goldsmith, and Rino Ferrario. After her are Nicholas Katzenbach, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, Andrew Sarris, Turhan Bey, Joe Paterno, and Kitty Wells.

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In India

Among people born in India, Homai Vyarawalla ranks 753 out of 1,493Before her are Sugata Mitra (1952), Amjad Ali Khan (1945), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Begum Akhtar (1914), Kenneth Anderson (1891), and Amit Shah (1964). After her are V. Shantaram (1901), Jyoti Amge (1993), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Gauri Khan (1970), Monier Monier-Williams (1819), and Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959).

Among JOURNALISTS In India

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