Javed Akhtar: Richard Dawkins Award

Javed Akhtar bags Richard Dawkins Award, first Indian to get this honor

3 years ago

Veteran lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar is honored with the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award for advancing human progress, critical thinking, humanist values, and holding religious dogma up to scrutiny. He is the first Indian to win the Richard Dawkins Award 2020.

Javed Akhtar’s wife Shabana Azmi shared information on twitter:https://twitter.com/AzmiShabana/status/1269529120607789056

The award is presented since 2003 and is named after English evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins. Every year Richard Dawkins award is presented to an individual from the field of science, education, entertainment, upholding scientific truth, and who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism.

Bollywood celebrities took social media to congratulate the writer on recognition.

Javed Akhtar has written the screenplay for iconic movies like Zanjeer, Sholay, and Deewar also has five National Awards Padma Shri (1999), Padma Bhushan (2007), and even the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Shruti Jain

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