“Indian Musical Instruments” doodle will mark Google India homepage on Children’s Day
November 9, 2011
With more than 1.5 lakh entries and over a lakh online votes, the anticipation has been building in this year’s Doodle4Google competition. Today, the wait is finally over as India gets its third Doodle4Google winner—7-year-old Varsha Gupta of Greater Noida is the national winner with her imaginative doodle, entitled “Indian Musical Instruments”
Varsha Gupta, who attends Ryan International School, Greater Noida, submitted her design around this year’s theme, ‘India’s gift to the world’. 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. The Doodle team and Jennifer Hom – the creative force behind the legendary Gandhi birth anniversary doodle, chose the winning doodle for India.
Varsha Gupta’s artistic merit, creativity, and expression of the theme has won her a technology starter package that includes a laptop, a year’s Internet connection and a Rs.2,00,000 technology grant for her school. Her doodle will also be featured on the Google India homepage on 14th November 2011 to mark the occasion of Children’s day in the country.
We are overwhelmed to see great participation from young children and schools year-on-year since 2009. The designs for this year’s theme “India’s Gift to the world” were incredibly creative across all grade groups. In addition to selecting Varsha Gupta as the national winner, more than 1 million public votes helped us determine the three group winners, each of which will receive a Technology Starter package.
Big thanks to all of you who voted and helped us select this year's winners. More importantly, we thank all the students who submitted entries this year and our partner schools & guest judges who helped us in the difficult task of selecting the winning doodles from among the amazing entries this year. Keep on doodling and we’ll see you next year!
Varsha Gupta’s artistic merit, creativity, and expression of the theme has won her a technology starter package that includes a laptop, a year’s Internet connection and a Rs.2,00,000 technology grant for her school. Her doodle will also be featured on the Google India homepage on 14th November 2011 to mark the occasion of Children’s day in the country.
We are overwhelmed to see great participation from young children and schools year-on-year since 2009. The designs for this year’s theme “India’s Gift to the world” were incredibly creative across all grade groups. In addition to selecting Varsha Gupta as the national winner, more than 1 million public votes helped us determine the three group winners, each of which will receive a Technology Starter package.
- Grades 1-3: Shibajyoti Choudhury (Group I) from Jamshedpur won the group prize for his doodle titled ‘Developing excellent India and World’
- Grades 4-6: Abhinav R. (Group II) from Coimbatore won the prize for his doodle titled ‘India’s contribution to the world - Tradition’.
- Grades 7-10: Nishi Bordia (Group III) from Indore won the prize for her doodle titled ‘India’s gift to the world - India itself’.
Big thanks to all of you who voted and helped us select this year's winners. More importantly, we thank all the students who submitted entries this year and our partner schools & guest judges who helped us in the difficult task of selecting the winning doodles from among the amazing entries this year. Keep on doodling and we’ll see you next year!
Posted by Robin Joseph, Consumer Marketing
