Google’s R-Day Doodle This Year Is A Tribute To BSF’s Camel Contigent

Google has always come up with something special for India’s Republic Day and this year was no different. 

Here’s what this year’s doodle is for Indian netizens:

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This year’s doodle honours the camel contingent of the Border Security Force that participates in the Republic Day parade and also patrols the India-Pakistan border along the Thar desert in Rajasthan. 

In its blog, Google said that artist Robinson Wood was inspired by the contingent to create this year’s doodle that is a tribute to the 34 musicians and 54 guards. 

The blog says: 

Each guard, a member of India’s Border Security Force, rides high above the ground on a stately camel. And each year, without fail, a caravan of these mounted troops is “deployed” to Rajpath in New Delhi to march in the Republic Day parade, a festive celebration of the Indian constitution. The presence of these guards is now a long-standing tradition; this is the 66th year in which the BSF camel contingent will appear before all of India.

And these were the doodles that didn’t make it: 

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