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Arun Kumar Yadav, Kendriya Vidyalaya Chandigarh India - A prism of multiplicity India has diverse cultures, religions, languages, customs and traditions. This diversity can be witnessed in enthusiasm for sports; unique folk culture; extraordinary remarkable handicrafts; wide range of flora and fauna; agricultural practices with worldwide farming output; unparalleled spices and cuisines... Such colossal diversities represent Indias oneness. We have this thing called a logo which you see each time you visit www.google.co.in. We love it and hate the idea of it becoming boring. So, we often do fun things with our logo and call it a doodle. To keep the fun going, we like to invite bright young minds to come and share their imagination and creativity by designing their own ...

New Delhi: A digital cast of Auguste Rodin's bronze and marble sculpture 'The Thinker' has been posted on the Google home page on the occasion of the French sculptor's 172nd birth anniversary. The image of the man in sober meditation replaces the second O of the Google logo on November 12. The doodle is in two colours - blue and black. Auguste Rodin, whose full name is Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin was born on November 12, 1840 in Paris. Rodin is considered as one of the greatest portraitist in sculpture. Born into a poor family Rodin had a tough childhood and after the death of his sister in 1862 he thought of joining the church. But in 1864 Rose Beuret came into his life, they remained lifelong companions and only married a few weeks before Beuret's death in 1917. Rodin's first submission to an exhibition in 1864 was rejected but he gradually developed his characteristic expressive style. But rejections and controversy followed him. By the a...

Bram Stoker's 165th birthday is being marked by a Google doodle. Bram Stoker, born Abraham Stoker, was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 novel Dracula. Stoker wrote his first novel, The Primrose Path, in 1875. It appeared in five issues of The Shamrock (Dublin) with the first instalment appearing on February 6, 1875 and the last on March 6, 1875. The novel was accompanied by five unsigned illustrations that depicted scenes from the story. His second novel was The Snake's Pass, published in 1890. It centred on the troubled romance between an English tourist and a local Irish peasant. The Snake's Pass was set in his native Ireland - his only novel to do so. Bram Stoker wrote two more books (The Watter's Mou' and The Shoulder of Shasta) before writing the book he's best remembered for even today. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent considerable time researching European fol...