Varsha Gupta, a seven-year-old student of Ryan International in Greater Noida near Delhi Won 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.
Google’s Doodle is becoming more popular going by the number of entries this year at 1.5 lakh for Nov. 14, Children’s day event. 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.
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”.
