Google celebrates India’s Independence day with doodle

Team Udayavani, Aug 15, 2019, 11:07 AM IST

Google on Thursday unveiled its doodle to celebrate India’s 73rd Independence Day.

The doodle has been created by Shaivalini Kumar. It depicts traditional motifs from Indian textiles evoking the complex yet harmonious “patchwork” of Indian culture, ranging from education to the arts, to courage and compassion conceptualising what makes India unique.

The Google Doodle portrays some of the historic moments in the country’s recent times. Recent milestones of India are portrayed in today special doodle. There is the doodle of a satellite, acknowledging ISRO’s stellar space missions, then there is the LGBT pride flag that which is a nod to India’s decriminalisation of homosexuality. The doodle also has a tiger, signifying India’s doubling its national animal’s count. A peacock plume and the Delhi Metro is also seen.