Homai Vyarawalla | Wiki | Bio |
Homai Vyarawalla | Wiki | Bio |
Homai Vyarawalla was born on December 9, 1913. She was commonly known by her pseudonym – Dalda 13. She was awarded the Padma Vibhusan, the second highest civilian award. She clicked some memorable photographs between 1938 and 1970.The pictures of first tricolour-hoisting after Independence, the death of Mahatma Gandhi, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru releasing a pigeon and others have become part of national archives.
Homai Vyarawalla ,Born on December 13, 1913 in a middle-class Parsi family in Navsari,Gujarat. She lived in many places because of her father’s traveling theatre company. After moving to Bombay, she studied at Bombay University and later at Sir JJ School of Art.
Her father was an actor with a Parsi-Urdu theatre.Vyarawalla began her photography career in 1938. She learnt photography from Maneckshaw Vyarawalla whom she married in 1941. They later shifted to Delhi.
AT the outbreak of World War II she started working with The Illustrated Weekly of India magazine which published many of her black and white photographs. These photographs later became iconic because of the time and the turbulence that it depicted. She joined the British Information Services in 1942 after moving to Delhi and photographed many historical events and political leaders in the period leading up to Independence.
Some of the subjects for her photographs were Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indira Gandhi and the Nehru-Gandhi family.Most of her photographs were published under the pseudonym “Dalda 13″. The reasons behind her choice of this name were that her birth year was 1913, she met her husband at the age of 13 and her first car’s number plate read “DLD 13″.
Homai Vyarawalla quit photography a year after her husband’s death and moved to Vadodara in 1973. She had moved with her son Farouq to Pilani, Rajasthan where he taught at BITS Pilani. She moved back to Vadodara with her son in 1982. She lived alone in a Vadodara, Gujarat after her son passed away in 1989 due to cancer.
She was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civillian award. She was also conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in 2010.
Homai Vyarawalla was born on December 9, 1913. She was commonly known by her pseudonym – Dalda 13. She was awarded the Padma Vibhusan, the second highest civilian award. She clicked some memorable photographs between 1938 and 1970.The pictures of first tricolour-hoisting after Independence, the death of Mahatma Gandhi, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru releasing a pigeon and others have become part of national archives.
Homai Vyarawalla ,Born on December 13, 1913 in a middle-class Parsi family in Navsari,Gujarat. She lived in many places because of her father’s traveling theatre company. After moving to Bombay, she studied at Bombay University and later at Sir JJ School of Art.
Her father was an actor with a Parsi-Urdu theatre.Vyarawalla began her photography career in 1938. She learnt photography from Maneckshaw Vyarawalla whom she married in 1941. They later shifted to Delhi.
AT the outbreak of World War II she started working with The Illustrated Weekly of India magazine which published many of her black and white photographs. These photographs later became iconic because of the time and the turbulence that it depicted. She joined the British Information Services in 1942 after moving to Delhi and photographed many historical events and political leaders in the period leading up to Independence.
Some of the subjects for her photographs were Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indira Gandhi and the Nehru-Gandhi family.Most of her photographs were published under the pseudonym “Dalda 13″. The reasons behind her choice of this name were that her birth year was 1913, she met her husband at the age of 13 and her first car’s number plate read “DLD 13″.
Homai Vyarawalla quit photography a year after her husband’s death and moved to Vadodara in 1973. She had moved with her son Farouq to Pilani, Rajasthan where he taught at BITS Pilani. She moved back to Vadodara with her son in 1982. She lived alone in a Vadodara, Gujarat after her son passed away in 1989 due to cancer.
Vyarawalla gave her collection of photographs to the Delhi-based Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. In 2010, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (NGMA) in collaboration with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts presented a retrospective of her work.
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