Javed Akhtar gets Richard Dawkins Award
- The Famous lyricist, Poet and writer Javed Akhtar has earned the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award for 2020. due to this, he got an achievement of being the first Indian person who got Richard Dawkins Award. he got Richard Dawkins Award for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values.
Full List of Richard Dawkins Award Recipients –
| Year | Winner Name |
| 2020 | Javed Akhtar |
| 2019 | Ricky Gervais |
| 2018 | Stephen Fry |
| 2017 | David Silverman |
| 2016 | Lawrence M. Krauss |
| 2015 | Jerry Coyne |
| 2014 | Rebecca Goldstein |
| 2013 | Steven Pinker |
| 2012 | Eugenie Scott |
| 2011 | Christopher Hitchens |
| 2010 | Susan Jacoby |
| 2009 | Bill Maher |
| 2008 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| 2007 | Daniel Dennett |
| 2006 | Julia Sweeney |
| 2005 | Penn & Teller |
| 2004 | Ann Druyan |
| 2003 | James Randi |
About Richard Dawkins Award –
- Richard Dawkins Award is known as an annual award that is presented by the Atheist Alliance of America every year. it was named after Richard Dawkins who was an English evolutionary biologist.
Who can get Richard Dawkins Award –
- recipient must have a distinguished individual from the worlds of science, scholarship, education or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism.