India's first woman photo-journalist Homai Vyarawalla at the age of 98 died on Sunday morning at a private hopsital in Vadodara.
As per the officials report, she had fell down from her cot two days earlier and was subsequently hospitalised. Her husband Maneckshaw Vyarawalla predeceased her in 1970.
Mrs. Vyarawalla was born to a Parsi family on Decmber 9, 1913 and grew up in Mumbai and later moved to Delhi where she worked as an employee of British information services and photographed events leading to independence.
She took snaps of key events that would have a decisive impact on Indian history, including a meeting where leaders voted for the June 3 plan for India's partition.
She also photographed the first flag hoisting ceremony at Red Fort on August 15, 1947, the departure of Lord Mountabatten from India and the funerals of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
She was also crowned with Padma Vibhushan in January last year.
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