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Javed Akhtar becomes 1st Indian to receive Richard Dawkins Award

Sumit Arora Last updated on June 9th, 2020 09:07 am Leave a comment

Poet, lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar has honoured with the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award for 2020. He became the 1st Indian to be given the honour for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values. The award recognises a distinguished individual from the field of science, scholarship, education, or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism and upholding scientific truth.

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