Vadodara: India’s first woman photo-journalist Homai Vyarawalla died at a private hospital in Vadodara on Sunday morning at the age of 98.

She fell from her cot three days ago and was hospitalised at a private hospital, officials said. Her husband Maneckshaw Vyarawalla predeceased her in 1970.

Born on December 9, 1913 to a Parsi family, Vyarawalla grew up in Mumbai and moved to Delhi in 1942 where she photographed events leading to Independence, as an employee of the British Information Services.