It's Children's Day special on Google doodle

NEW DELHI, INDIA: This Children's Day, Google's doodle has a cultural touch, but from the hands of a child. The Google's India page today was created by Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from Ryan International School, Greater Noida.

In fact, Varsha earned the privilege of designing the Google logo by winning this year's Doodle 4 Google competition organised by Google India. The display of very Indian shehnai, tabla and a sitar is a depiction of India's age-old culture.

Varsha had told mediamen, "India is a land of different cultures. In India, music plays a very important role. India has given many musical instruments to the world. Goddess Saraswati plays Veena, God Shiv plays Damaru."

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Varsha's knowledge and thoughts were far beyond one's imagination as she said: "According to our mythological stories musical instruments used to be played on all the occasions. Even during war musical instruments were played. Lord Krishna's flute is known in the whole world for its magical music. In modern days Zakir Hussain is world famous as Tabla Maestro and Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is known as a great Santoor player all over the world."

This year participants were challenged to imagine their own version of the Google logo based on the theme "India’s gift to the world".  Varsha was also given a laptop, a year's Internet connection and a Rs. 2,00,000 technology grant for her school.

The Google holds the Google Doodle competition every year wherein students from I to X standard design their version of its logo based on a theme.