Children’s Day is celebrated in the honour of the birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Google is celebrating Children’s Day with a doodle that was created by a school student from Mumbai. The student was the winner of the 2018 Doodle 4 Google competition in India. This year’s theme was “What inspires me?”.
The name of the student is Pingla Rahul. She showed her fascination with space exploration through the doodle. The doodle shows the picture of a child looking at the sky dotted with stars with a telescope. Ms Rahul created galaxies, planets and spacecraft to represent the vastness of things in space, which is carefully arranged to form letters in the Google logo. There are four more group winners that Google chose; a doodle on farmers, animals, wise monkeys and a study desk. The winners were chosen by Arun Iyer, famous artist and YouTube Kids Creator, Rob (Harun Robert), India’s leading YouTube Creator Sejal Kumar and the Google Doodles team lead, Ryan Germick, with 300,000 votes from people.
In India, Children’s Day is celebrated on 14th November every year as a tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru who was born on 14th November 1889. Jawaharlal Nehru was lovingly addressed as Chacha Nehru. He was known for his immense love for children.
On this day, chocolates and gifts are generally distributed among children. The schools also organize different events and performances in order to entertain the children.
Prior to 1964, India celebrated Children’s Day along with the entire world on 20th November. It was observed as the universal Children’s Day by the United Nations. But after the death of Nehru in 1964, it was decided that his birthday would be celebrated as Bal Diwas in the country due to his love and affection for children.
