Google holds the doodle contest for school kids in India every year on a particular theme and features the winning entry on its homepage on Children's Day. For this year, the theme was 'celebrating the Indian women'. Google Indiamanaging director Rajan Anandan said the company received over 1.5 lakh entries this year.
Gayatri, currently a student of class 10 at the Bishop's Co-Ed School in Pune, has been taking part in the contest for last four years. She came close to winning in 2011 when her doodle on 'India's gift to the world' was among the shortlisted entries. But this year she finally succeeded with a doodle that celebrates the Indian woman and her life.
"It took me around a week to complete the doodle once I started working on it. But before that I spend several weeks thinking about the theme and how best I can represent the ideas I had in my mind about Indian women," Gayatri told TOI. "My doodle attempts to show different qualities of Indian women."
The doodle, which has to resemble the word Google, starts with a dancing woman who is arched to represent G. Gayatri says that the figure represents the grace and feminine side of Indian women. In place of two Os, Gayatri has used one rupee coin and a symbol for home, representing how Indian women take care of work as well as home. In place of G, there are earth and moon, showing that the Indian women are go-getters. In place of L, there is a woman holding a kid, showing caring nature of Indian women and in place of E, there is a police cap, which shows that when required Indian women can wear different hats and can be tough and brave.
This year the Doodle4Google contest had three categories. Category one was for studentsclass 1 to 3, category two was for studentsclass 4 to 6 and category three was for studentsclass 7 to 10. The category one was won by Madhuram VatsalLucknow, category two was won by Binita BiswajeetaBalasore and the category three was won by Akash ShettyMangalore. Gayatri was the overall winner.
Google said that before deciding the winners, it had selected 12 finalists.of them have been given a Chromebook as well as a few other prizes.
"The entries this year have comeacross the country which is a clear indication that we are well underway to taking the internet to the next billion," said Anandan.
Google often features doodles on its homepage to mark important momentsholiday or historical event. It also often pays homage to scientists, inventors and other notable persons on its homepage through dedicated doodles.
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