Google India's 4th winner for Google4Doodle announced today as Arun Kumar Yadav. Arun is an Std IX student of Kendriya Vidyalaya from Chandigarh. Doodle for Google has been conducted since the last 4 years by Google India. This competition for designing Doodles for Google has been kept open for students from classes 1 to 10 only. Every year different theme is set and this year's theme was 'Unity in Diversity', which was participated by 200k+ students, from all across the country. Out of more than 2 lakh submissions, only 13 got selected and were sent for the online exhibition, to choose the final winner from voting. This year's winning Doodle title is 'India - A Prism if Multiplicity' which was live on the Google.co.in homepage. All the 13 finalists will receive a Google Goodie bag and a Samsung tablet Doodle for Google participants generally gets grouped into three different categories: Group 1 having students from class 1 to 3. Winner: Vasudevan
Pachisi, Chausar, Chopad or popularly known as Ludo is an ancient Indian game, which per some historians Mughal Emperor Akbar was addicted to and used to play with real people instead of plastic buttons or plastic statue miniatures, the game has now become a strategy game and are taught at business schools. On August 29, 1891, Alfred Collier had applied for a patent in England, claiming that a board game, which he named Royal Ludo, was his invention. Since then the game became popular worldwide by the name we know today. Later on, the British Royal Navy converted it into a board game called ‘Uckers’. According to some historians this board game of Ludo or pachisi originates in India as far back as 3300 BC. The exact origins of this legendary game though seems uncertain, but some earliest proofs of this game comes from the historic Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, where the board game was depicted in the form illustrations on the wall. This seems to suggest that Ludo was an Indian creation.