“Parsi kya cheez hai?”—”What is a Parsi?”

At Farouq’s Navjote ceremony at the Wadiaji Fire Temple in Bombay. Sitting from left to right are Homai’s mother, Soonamai, Farouq and Homai. Standing from left to right are her brothers, Homi and Siavak, and her husband, Maneckshaw.

Sabeena Gadihoke teaches Video and Television Production at the Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia University in New Delhi. She is also an independent documentary filmmaker and cameraperson. Gadihoke graduated in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and did a Masters in Mass Communication at Jamia University. Her film Three Women and a Camera was awarded prizes at Film South Asia at Kathmandu (1999) and at the Mumbai International Film Festival (2000). She was a Fulbright Fellow during 1995–96 and has received grants from India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore and the Charles Wallace Trust, U.K. for her research on photography.

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“A chornicle of contemporary history seen through pictures taken by a photojournalist who ' s mostly as unobtrusive as a fly on the wall.

“Her photographs are integral parts as much of India ’ s photojournalism heritage as of the nation ’ s collective psyche.

“Gadihoke ' s work brings together excellent reproductions of Homai' s photographs, thorough curating, nuanced and readable biographical documentation, and a well-researched grasp of Homai' s social and historical context, especially the history of the Parsi community that is embodied in her life and career.