The Google India is celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with a Doodle dedicated to him on its homepage. The Doodle, designed by a Pune girl, is also the winner of Google's Doodle4Google contest this year.
This contest is held across 50 cities and 1700 schools in India. The annual contest is held by Google ahead of the Children's Day. As part of the contest the company invites school kids to create doodle on a particular theme. The winning entry is displayed on the Google homepage on November 14.
This year the theme for the competition was 'a place in India I wish to visit'. Google said that it received an unprecedented 1 million entries for this year's competition, which was divided in three categories -- one for students in class 1 to 3, one for students in class 4 to 6 and the third for students in class 7 to 10.
The winner -- Vaidehi Reddy from Army Public School in Pune -- belonged to the class 7 to 10 group.
Vaidehi's doodle represents Assam and shows several cultural motifs from the state. It also shows a tiger and rhino, which represent the rich wildlife found in Assam.
"Doodle4Gooogle is the perfect platform for the youth of India to showcase their talent on an international platform. The response of over 1 million entries is indeed overwhelming and the talent which has surfaced through entries is remarkable. We at Google are extremely encouraged by the fact that entries this year have come from across the country which is a clear indication that we are well underway to taking the internet to the next billion," said Rajan Anandan, VP & MD of Google India.
Google said that after receiving the entries, it shortlisted 12 of them with the help of a jury. Political cartoonist Ajit Ninan and Google Doodle team lead Ryan Gerick were part of the jury.
These 12 entries were then put online and web users were asked to vote for them.
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