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An analysis of the Doodle database between 2010 to 2013 by SPARK movement, a girls advocacy group, found that out of the accounted 445 personalities, 62 per cent were white men, while women accounted for about 17 per cent and women of color just 4 per cent of the doodles.

The Google doodle of the day celebrating the 153rd birth anniversary of Rukhmabai Raut — one of the first practicing female doctors in colonial India and the woman who took a firm stand against the norm of husband’s claim over the wife, regardless of her consent, — is the latest in a slew of trailblazing Indian women to be recalled and felicitated by the search giant. Among the recently featured were India’s first woman advocate Cornelia Sorabjee, social activist Anasuya Sarabhai , Kathak legend Sitara Devi , Hindustani singer Begum Akhtar and chemist Asima Chatterjee — not household names but copiously deserving to be recalled for the pathbreaking contributions of their lived lives.  The cute, fun animations — some country-specific and some global —  have become a lively feature of Google’s daily presence in the last few years and are a great little dose of daily history. The company has brought guest illustrators on board to do more than 2, 000 and counting.

The first doodle came about as a comical, out-of-office message by its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin on August 30, 1998 — less than a week before Google was officially incorporated as a company. The founders were going to attend the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and left behind its insignia — a spare stick figure — behind the second “o” of “Google”. The design was simple, however as Google would note its history of the doodle, it opened the door to the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events. The doodles, at first, focused on familiar holidays; eventually, they came to include everything from global and niche histories to celebrations of mundane delights like hole punch and an ice-cream sundae.

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The ideas came from brainstorm sessions of Google employees as well as Google users, who are encouraged to email proposals to the team of doodlers, aka the illustrators and engineers responsible of daily Google doodles. The selection process, according the About page of doodle, “aims to celebrate interesting events and anniversaries that reflect Google’s personality and love for innovation”.

The 2010s increasingly saw Google at the crossroads of issues of inclusion and representation of women and minorities off-and-online. The company was held at a high standard was under-utilising its global platform to highlight women’s largely-unknown contributions to creativity, innovation and justice. An analysis of the Doodle database by SPARK movement, a girls advocacy group, between 2010 to 2013 revealed sexism. The research found that out of the accounted 445 personalities, 62 per cent were white men, while women accounted for about 17 per cent and women of color just 4 per cent of the doodles. The study noted that while the “designs have come a long way, the white male-centric focus really hasn’t”.

Google has, since then, proactively responded by incorporating greater diversity in its effort towards correcting the ‘history’s unconscious bias’ against achievements of women — especially women of color. The diversity numbers of the doodles started improving in 2014, according to SPARK’s initial research quoted by CNN. 

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8 this year, it featured thirteen illustrious women that spanned across history and the world, in fields ranging from journalism to archaeology and art. Among them was the late Indian dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale who revived the almost-obscure Bharatanatyam dance form in the 1930s and gave it its internationally acclaimed, contemporary rendition. The list included achievers like English mathematician and computer programmer Ada Lovelace and Egypt’s first woman pilot, Lotfia al-Nadi.

Social reformer Savitribai Phule, painter Amrita Sher-gil and legendary actor Nutan are some other remarkable Indian women with a featured doodle to their name.The interactive, 360° Doodle, or more accurately, short film, can be viewed on mobile, desktop, or through VR headsets including Google's own Cardboard or Daydream, and it's available worldwide.

Created in collaboration with Google Spotlight Stories, Google Arts and Culture, and Cinémathèque Française, the Doodle coincides with the original release date of Méliès' iconic 1912 work

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You can give it a whirl in VR by downloading the Google Spotlight Stories app on Google Play(Opens in a new tab) or in the App Store(Opens in a new tab) , or if you don't have a headset, you can watch it below in 360° via YouTube, or in your browser(Opens in a new tab) .

, follows a lovelorn illusionist, besotted with a bold queen of hearts, who is kidnapped by a evil dude, of course. There's a lovely tribute to Méliès' 1902 iconic adventure film

Within the film, developers used direct references to Méliès' groundbreaking film experiments, the originals of which you can see on Google.(Opens in a new tab) Doodle producers Nexus Studios, with project art lead Hélène Leroux and co-director Fx Goby, wanted to pay homage to a handful of these tricks.

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Méliès brought magic to filmmaking through dozens of tricks and illusions, said Leroux in a statement. What better way to pay homage to this then by using one of the most innovative and immersive tools we have for storytelling today: Virtual reality!

During Méliès’ time, filming in colour wasn't yet an option, so Leroux and her team purposely used a dominant colour in each scene.

The queen of hearts character is even a reference to actress Jehanne D’Alcy, who starred in some of Méliès’ films and would later become his wife.

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Laurent Manonni, director of heritage at the Cinémathèque Française, a project partner, said in a statement for Google that Méliès' revolutionary work sparked the beginnings of the special effects used in film today.

In a time when cinematography was nascent and almost exclusively documentary-style, Méliès single handedly opened the doors of the dream, the magic, and the fiction, he said.

If you're super keen, here's a look behind the scenes of the Doodle's making, with plenty of sketches, film clips and early development:

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