Won by Varsha Gupta, a seven-year-old student of Ryan International in Greater Noida near Delhi on the theme “India’s contribution to the world”, the doodle is a simple portrayal of six traditional musical instruments to form “Google”.
“Varsha Gupta’s doodle of the Google logo artfully depicts how India is a land of different cultures and music plays an important role in it. The doodle artfully represents many musical instruments that India has introduced to the to the world- Tabla, Sarod, Veena and Shehnai,” wrote Robin Joseph, Google’s Consumer Marketing executive on Google’s blog.
The contribution to Google’s Doodles are growing since 2009. The competition was open to school children of all grades and applications submitted by schools only were considered. In turn, the school from where the winning entry comes will get Rs. 200,000. The winner will get a technology starter package — a laptop and one-year free internet connection.
Apart from Varsha Gupta, in Group I of Grades 1-3, Shibajyoti Choudhury from Jamshedpur won the group prize for his doodle titled ‘Developing excellent India and World’ In Group II of Grades 4-6, Abhinav R. from Coimbatore won the prize for his doodle titled ‘India’s contribution to the world – Tradition’. Finally, in group III of Grades 7-10, Nishi Bordia from Indore won the prize for her doodle titled ‘India’s gift to the world – India itself’.
Last year, Akshay Raj, grade IX student from St. Aloysius High School, Mangalore, won similar Doodle 4 Google competition for the winning doodle titled “Technically and Naturally Growing India”.
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