This year’s Doodle4Google contest in India had the theme ‘celebrating Indian women’ and Gayatri Ketharaman, a student from Pune has won it. She is a tenth grader from The Bishop’s Co-Ed school, Pune, Maharashtra. Her drawing will be displayed for all to see on the Google India homepage on November 14, that is, Children’s Day.
A blog post by Sandeep Menon, Director of Marketing at Google India reveals that the search engine giant received thousands of entries from over 100 cities in the country and the team had a tough time deciding the winner. Apart from the Google India team, the judges were actress Kirron Kher and political cartoonist Ajit Ninan.
The picture that we have posted above shows us how Gayatri has transformed the Google logo to depict the various roles of an Indian woman. The very first part shows her elegance and grace while the next symbolizes her ability to strike a balance between her work and home. Also, it clearly says that India women are strong enough to combat difficulties and even prove to be good at motherhood.
Additionally, three group winners were selected on the basis of public votes. They are Madhuram Vatsal from St. Francis’s College, Lucknow, Binita Biswajeeta from D.A.V Public School, Balasore, Odissa and Akash Shetty from St Aloysius High School, Mangalore. These students are the winners of Groups I, II and III, respectively.
Gayatri Ketharaman’ tribute to Indian women will be displayed on the Google homepage on November 14 and those who couldn’t win this time, can try again in 2014.