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A class 10 student from Pune was awarded in Delhi Tuesday for designing the doodle for Google India, which has gone live on the Google home page in India Thursda to mark Children's Day.Doodles are the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and lives of famous artists and scientists. The doodle titled "Sky's the limit for Indian women" has been designed by Gayatri Ketharaman for the fifth edition of Doodle4Google competition with the theme celebrating Indian women. "Each letter of the doodle depicts the trait of Indian women. She is graceful and elegant, adept at balancing work and home. She is a go-getter and also personifies motherhood," said Gayatri Ketharaman, a student of Bishop's co-education school in Pune. The winner was selected from among 12 finalists chosen from different parts of the country by the national jury comprising actress Kirron Kher and politi

Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday is being celebrated by Google through an interactive doodle. Born on 8 November 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for inventing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. The inkblot test - or the Rorschach test - is a psychological test using which a person's interpretations of inkblots are recorded and assessed through psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person's personality traits and emotional functioning. It's also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly. Friday's interactive Google doodle honouring Hermann Rorschach features different inkblot patterns that can be browsed by clicking on them or on the navigation array keys. The doodle also features a 'Share what you see butt

CV Raman's 125th birth anniversary has been marked by Google with a doodle in his honour. One of India's most prolific scientists, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1930 for discovering that when light passes through a transparent material, some part of the deflected light changes in wavelength. The phenomenon was part of a theory that was named Raman effect, after the physicist himself. Thursday's Google doodle features a postage stamp like graphic with Sir CV Raman's head shot along with the diagram of the apparatus demonstrating the Raman effect, all somehow also looking like the alphabets of the Google logo. CV Raman was born in Thiruvanaikaval, Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, in British India to R. Chandrasekhara Iyer and Parvati Ammal on 7 November 1888. He passed his Bachelors degree in 1904 he passed securing first place and bagged a gold medal in physics. He got his Masters degree with the highest distinctions in 1907.