Kolkata: For aficionados of Indian music, Google's October 7 doodle is special. Today, Google is celebrating the 103rd birth anniversary of Mallika-e-Ghazal Begum Akhtar with an honoring doodle. Manuja Singh Waldia - a young innovative Indian illustrator and graphic designer who studied in Delhi before she moved to the US - was made to order to do the doodle art.
The doodle on Begum Akhtar is Waldia’s very first for Google. When Penguin Classics was decisive to publish new editions of Shakespeare's plays to enliven his work offstage, Waldia was commissioned to do the covers that would give the century’s old texts a modern update. "Erich Nagler, art director at Google, San Francisco, had commissioned me to make effort on it. He had traced contacted me through an email," said Waldia from Oregon. Nagler's Twitter profile states that he is the art director for the Google doodles team in San Francisco. "The brief was to create on memorialize Begum on her birthday, and celebrate her status as one of the most trendy ghazal singers, and one of the first female public ghazal performers," she added.
The project was enclosed a few weeks ago. For many in India, it was a lovely surprise to find Google commemorating the birth anniversary of the renowned singer. "She deserves all the great attention in the world. She is a broke new ground and early feminist!
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