Google announces winners of creating writing contest

Google India has announced the winners of Google Wordmasters 2006, the creative writing contest designed to identify and celebrate India's English writing talent.

While Vamsi Krishna Nakkina from Hyderabad has been named as the overall winner of the competition, Karunguzhi Nalini from Bangalore and Amrita Singh from Delhi have been named as runners-up.

The winner has been given a cash award of Rs 1 lakh apart from being given a scope to join a creative writing course from a reputed university abroad. The second and the third runners-up have been given a cash prize of Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000 each.

"Wordmasters 2006 was a platform to identify and celebrate India's English writing talent and we are thrilled with both the response and the quality of talent we have seen," said Roy Gilbert, director, Online Sales and Operations, Google India.

In Wordmasters 2006, participants were given a randomly generated list of words and were asked to use them to create a logical and grammatically correct written piece on a topic of choice. The contest was held on September 30, 2006, across 10 cities in India.