A woman was once at the Rashtrapati Bhavan to report a function. When she lifted her arms to take a top-angle snap, one of her blouse sleeves tore. While the onlookers laughed, she ripped the torn sleeve off, pulled the other sleeve out too, and continued working. That was Homai Vyarawalla — the country’s first woman photojournalist, who traversed the busy streets of Bombay in search of the perfect shot. Who Clicked That Pic? (Ektara) narrates the story of this young and gutsy woman who went around on a bicycle with a nine-kg Rolleiflex camera strapped around her shoulder to become a woman photographer — something unheard of in those times. Nandita da Cunha, together with illustrator Priya Kuriyan’s enlivening illustrations, weaves in fiction with truth to present the context to 
Vyarawalla’s first ever byline. Here are excerpts from our chat with Cunha: