New Delhi, August 29: Visitors to Delhi during the upcoming Commonwealth Games can feast their eyes on rare visuals, which present an insight into the life and times of yesteryear India, captured by one of the country’s first woman photojournalist – Homai Vyarawalla.
A day in the life of Indian firemen during wartime, right from receiving a distress call, sliding down poles into an appliance room, to picking up uniforms neatly arranged in rows, to dousing the fire – the story of the fireman is told through a series of captioned photographs that appeared in the Illustrated Weekly of India in the 1940s.
The photographs are from Vyarawalla’s vast personal collection of original photographs and negatives being displayed at the National Gallery of Modern Art as part of her retrospective, which began August 27 and will continue till October 31, this year.