oogle Doodles are one aspect of the search engine that everybody just loves. The Internet giant makes sure that important days in countries are never missed. And this year for November 14, which happens to be children’s day in India, Google held a Doodle4Google contest. The winning doodle will be carried on the search engine’s homepage.
The winner for the contest was a tiny surprise. Varsha Gupta, a Class III student and only seven years old, from Ryan International School, Greater Noida, was the budding artist who impressed the professionals at Google.
Her doodle, titled ‘Indian Musical Instruments’ was chosen from over nearly 1,55,000 doodles. Explaining her doodle, Varsha writes, “India is a land of different cultures. In India, music plays a very important role. India has given many musical instruments to the world. Goddess Saraswati plays Veena, God Shiv plays Damaru. In modern days Mr. Zakir Hussain is world famous as Tabla Mastro and Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is known as a great Santoor player all over the world”.
oogle India, presented Varsha with the winning certificate along with a technology starter package including a laptop, a year’s Internet connection and a Rs 2,00,000 technology grant for her school.The theme for the Google doodle contest was “India’s gift to the world” and the contest was judged by professional artists who design Google doodles.
FP Staff Nov 10, 2011
