Tech giant Google flagged off Children’s Day celebrations for India as it announced the winner of Doodle for Google competition. Shlok Mukherjee from West Bengal, attained top position in the contest which had over 2,15,000 entries from more than 100 Indian cities for the children of classes 1-10.
His doodle – titled ‘India on the center stage’ expresses his hopes for India’s scientific advancements to gain further momentum in the coming years. The company said, “We were especially heartened that the advancement of technology and sustainability emerge as common themes across many of the Doodles.”
Shlok’s doodle, which is based on contest’s theme will be displayed on the search engine throughout the day. Google said 20 doodles were finalised by a team of judges including famous personalities like the Editor-in-Chief at Tinkle Comics, Kuriskose Vaisian and were put up online for public voting. Google the judgement criteria for finalising from hundreds of entries was based on artistic merit, creativity, alignment with the contest theme, uniqueness and novelty of the approach.