Lyricist Javed Akhtar grew to become the primary Indian to be named because of the recipient of the Richard Dawkins Award. He has been honored for essential pondering, holding spiritual dogma as much as scrutiny, advancing human progress, and humanist values.
Speaking to an information company, Javed Akhtar mentioned that he’s deeply honored as he has been an important admirer of Richard Dawkins ever since he learns his first ebook, ‘The Egocentric Gene’. The 75-year-old lyricist mentioned that he was knowledgeable concerning the honor by way of email and that he was chosen unanimously for the award by the board of Middle for Inquiry USA, by which The Richard Dawkins Basis is housed.
Yearly, the award recognizes a distinguished particular person from the sector of science, scholarship, schooling, or leisure, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism and upholding scientific reality.
Javed Akhtar’s spouse Shabana Azmi talking to an information company mentioned that the award’s relevance turns into extra distinguished particularly within the present instances when secularism is underneath assault.
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