Gayatri Ketharaman is "floating in the air"  that's how she describes how she is feeling right now. And why won't she. The Class X student of Bishop's Co-Ed School, Kalyani Nagar, was Tuesday declared the national winner of Google India's Doodle4Google competition.

The chosen one from among the 12 finalists, Ketharaman was felicitated by Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India, in New Delhi.

The fifth edition of the doodle design competition received 1.5 lakh entries from more than 1,500 schools across 100 cities. The theme for this year's competition was 'Celebrating Indian Women'.

Ketharaman's doodle titled Sky's The Limit for Indian Women will go live on the Google (India) homepage on November 14, the Children's Day. It was judged on the basis of artistic merit, creativity and expression of the theme by a jury that comprised actor Kirron Kher among others.

"Each letter in my doodle depicts a trait of the Indian woman that makes her special. 'G' shows her gracefulness, while the two 'O's show how adept she is at balancing work and home. The next 'G' depicts her as a go-getter, yet she is a mother at heart as shown in the letter 'L'. The final alphabet 'E' shows that even in the face of adversity, she is courageous," Ketharaman said from Delhi.

Asked how did she come up with the concept, Ketharaman said she had been brainstorming for days. "When some concrete ideas began to form, I discussed them with my mother and a cousin. I had many ideas to work on but one of the thoughts that was on my mind was how the common Indian woman is an achiever because she does so much every day," she said, adding that her mother Sumati and some of her teachers were a big inspiration to her.

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