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Subbulakshmi was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna. Google dedicated a doodle to MS Subbulakshmi on its India homepage to mark the renowned Carnatic vocalist's 97th birthday on Monday. The doodle features the singer holding a tanpura with her trademark red and black bindis prominent on her forehead. The letters of the word Google have been portrayed by a tabla, mridangam and ghatam. Subbulakshmi was born in Madurai to veena player Shanmukavadiver Ammal and Subramania Iyer, she started learning Carnatic music at an early age and trained under the tutelage of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. She also learnt Hindustani music under Pandit Narayanrao Vyas. The musical genius gave her first public performance at the age of 13 at the prestigious Madras Music Academy. Subbulakshmi was the first mus...

New Delhi: Celebrating the 187th birthday of the English cricketer John Wisden , Google posted a doodle on its homepage. The doodle features John Wisden playing cricket. The letter L in the doodle has been replaced with a cricket pitch. Born on September 5 1826, John Wisden played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is widely known for launching the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864. It happened the year after he retired from first-class cricket. John Wisden was said to be the best all-rounder of his days. People used to call him by the name "The Little Wonder". Wisden died of cancer in 1884. He was 57. John Wisden is widely known for launching the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864. Ref : http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-celebrates-john-wisdens-187th-birthday/419659-11.html

Claud Debussy's birthday is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle. French music composer Debussy is best remembered as one of the most prolific figures associated with impressionist music. Google's animated doodle presents a moonlit riverside scene set to the tunes of Clair de lune (3rd movement from Suite bergamasque) or Moonlight, one of Debussy's best music pieces. The moonlight riverside scene features a star studded sky, flickering streets lights and chimney smoke rising to the tunes of the piece, in addition to a windmill, boats, cycles, cars and balloons. The scene moves forward to depict rain falling on the river and concludes with two different boats crossing paths and the rowers sharing a red coloured umbrella. Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in France on 22 August 1862. He started taking piano lessons in Cannes at the age of seven, where he had moved with his mother during the Franco-Prussian war. Debuss...

Independence Day India 2013 marked by a Google doodle Independence Day India is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle, on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day. The doodle depicts a tricolour ribbon, in the colours of the Indian flag - saffron, white and green. 15th August is celebrated as Independence Day across India to mark the day that the country declared its independence from the British rule, sixty-six years ago. On the eve of Indian independence in 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his famous Tryst with Destiny speech to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament. Here are its opening lines. Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes b...

Rosalind Franklin, best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix, is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle on the occasion of her 93rd birthday. Franklin was born in Notting Hill, London on 25th July 1920. Her father was Ellis Arthur Franklin, a London merchant banker, and her mother was Muriel Frances Waley. Rosalind was the second child of the family of five children. From early childhood, Franklin showed exceptional scholastic abilities and it was no surprise when she went up to Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938 and studied chemistry within the Natural Sciences Tripos. After finishing her eduction, she met  the requirements of the National Service Act by working as an Assistant Research Officer at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA).  Her work with BCURA became the basis of her thesis The physical chemistry of solid organic ...

Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday is being celebrated by Google through a doodle featuring his self portrait. The self portrait or 'Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar' was made by Rembrandt in 1659. It is an oil on canvas painting and a celebrated work of the painter. The painting has been preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (US) since 1937, where it's part of the Andrew W. Mellon Collection.  Rembrandt van Rijn is known as one of the greatest painters in Europe and Dutch Republic (Netherlands). The period when he contributed to art, is known as the Dutch Golden age which was known for its cultural achievements. Art connoisseurs of the 20th century claimed that Rembrandt had made more than 600 paintings, about 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings, though modern day findings under Rembrandt Research Project mentions that he had done about 300 paintings. Among these, 40 paintings are said to be self-portraits. His work runs...

Google is celebrating legendary architect Antoni Gaudi's 161st birthday with a doodle showcasing some of his work. The doodle features six of his renowned works including Casa Batlo and Casa Mila in a miniature collage. Known as the father of modern Catalan architecture, Antoni Gaudi was born on June 25, 1852 in Reus, part of Catalonia in Spain. He grew up in the same region and was enrolled in Piarists school, following which he worked as an apprentice in a textile mill. He went to Barcelona to study teaching at Convent del Carmel. Gaudi then studied architecture at the Llotja School and the Barcelona Higher School of Architecture, and graduated in 1878. He also completed his compulsory military service. He also pursued a job as a draftsman to finance his education. Gaudi started his career by designing lampposts for the Placa Reial in Barcelona,  Girossi newsstands, and the Cooperativa Obrera Mataronense building, though he came into the lime ...