Children’s Day: Passion For Space Exploration Helped A Mumbai Student Win The 2018 Doodle 4 Google Competition

In the Doodle 4 Google competition with the theme “What inspires me” held in India to celebrate Children’s Day 2018, the winner was a female student in a Mumbai school.

Pingla Rahul is her name. It was the passion for space exploration that helped her to win the Google competition.

Rahul's excellent work in the 2018 Doodle 4 Google competition

This year, there are more than 75,000 people from all around the world taking part in the annual Doodle 4 Google competition. Finally, Pingla Rahul won with 3,00,000 votes. Her work is now being used on the homepage of the Google search engine.

Rahul shared on the Google’s official blog that the Universe with the undiscovered mysterious things, like galaxies, planets, and stars inspired her to complete her work. In the Universe, we will easily realize how small we are as well as how small our problems are.

In her work, she drew herself looking towards the starry sky through a telescope. Besides that, the galaxies, spacecraft, and planets which represented the immensity of the outer space were put together to form the word Google.

As per Children’s Day, this occasion was held on November 20 in India, same day with the Universal Children’s Day marked by the United Nation. However, after that, to memorize the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (also known as Chacha Nehru), the country chose to celebrate November 14 as Children’s Day, 6 days earlier than the world does.

For those unknown, Chacha Nehru was born on November 14, 1889. As the first Prime Minister in India, he was not only famous for his contribution to India’s struggle for independence but he was also remembered for his love towards children.