Monday, November 12, 2012

Chandigarh student's doodle wins Google contest

More than 100 million people across India will take a dekko at an Indian emblem, a winning Google doodle, on the search engine’s homepage Children’s Day Nov 14, the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister.
The doodle, “A Prism of Multiplicity” showing a football player, a kathakali dancer, gold jewellery, a peacock, a farmer and flowers, was created by Arun Kumar Yadav, a teenager and a student from Chandigarh.
Yadav was declared winner of the Doodle4Google contest, which received 200,000 submissions from 60 Indian cities.
The winning entries were announced at a small picnic-cum-felicitation ceremony at the Rail Museum in the capital.
Three teenaged students, Vasudevan Deepak from Kozhikode, Shravya Manjunath from Bangalore and S. Preetham Paul from Visakhapatnam, were the winners. Their doodles will be uploaded on a site called Classmate, and accessible for viewing on the search engine.
The competition was judged by a two-member jury comprising cartoonist Ajit Ninan and actor Boman Irani.
“The theme for this year’s competition was ‘Unity in Diversity.’
The Doodle4Google competition was instituted four years ago to encourage children to take up creative work.

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