Happy Nowruz 2025: Google Doodle Celebrates Persian New Year To Mark Spring
The Nowruz celebration originated in Iran (then Persia). Since its inception, it has spread to several parts of the world, including India.
Google celebrated the arrival of the Spring season with a special doodle dedicated to Nowruz 2025, the 3,000-year-old tradition marking the beginning of the season. This year, the Persian New Year is observed on Mar. 20. Guest artist Pendar Yousefi has designed the special Google Doodle.
For those unaware, Google Doodles are temporary, creative alterations of the Google logo that appear on the homepage of the tech giant’s search website. They are typically meant to celebrate important historical events, holidays, or public figures.
The origin of the Nowruz celebration has its roots in Iran (then Persia). Since its inception, the celebration has spread to several parts of the world, including India.
The Doodle featured themes associated with the Nowruz celebration, including cooking, blooming flowers, birds, apples and cleaning.
Detailing the significance of the celebration, Google said that a central theme to this tradition is the ‘haft-sīn table’. It is a "a beautiful display of seven symbolic items each beginning with the Persian letter sin."
These symbols include items such as apples for beauty, and garlic for health, olives for love, berries for the sunrise, vinegar for patience, sprouts for rebirth, wheat pudding for strength.
To celebrate Nowruz, many people also opt for spring cleaning as shown in the doodle. It marks preparation for a fresh start of the year. Other symbols in this theme include decorating eggs, and even leaping over a bonfire which is believed to cleanse energy from last year and invite vitality in the future.
Besides India, the doodle also appeared in countries like Canada, Azerbaijan, and Iran among others. The designer of the logo, Yousefi, is a California-based UX designer. He has contributed to several Google Doodles in the past and leads the design team at Google Translate.
Notably, the earliest Google Doodle that was launched was an "out of office" message. It was meant to share that company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin went on vacation.
