Shabaza Azmi shuts down ‘pathetic’ trolls who doubted Javed Akhtar’s Richard Dawkins award win

Lyricist and screenwriter, Javed Akhtar was recently honoured with the Richard Dawkins Award 2020. Javed is the only Indian to have ever bag this award. A Twitter user claimed that Javed didn’t win the award 2020 but he was only nominated.

Shabana Azmi shut down the troll by writing, “THIS IS PATENTLY UNTRUE! We have an email from Richard Dawkins on 5th June offering the award and also from Robyn Blumner who heads the Centre for Inquiry USA. I feel sad 4 these pathetic trolls who do not care that they will stand exposed in seconds 4 such a preposterous claim!”

Check the tweet here.

THIS IS PATENTLY UNTRUE! We have an email from Richard Dawkins on 5th June offering the award and also from Robyn Blumner who heads the Centre for Inquiry USA.I feel sad 4 these pathetic trolls who do not care that they will stand exposed in seconds 4 such a preposterous claim ! https://t.co/Ro1ejCNSdk

— Azmi Shabana (@AzmiShabana) June 9, 2020

Also, Richard Dawkins rubbished the rumours of Javed Akhtar not getting the award. He tweeted, “Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu is the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award winner and I could not be more pleased. The Center for Inquiry, on whose board I sit, has designated him this year’s recipient for his courageous public stands on behalf of atheism, rationality, and freethought.”

Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu is the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award winner and I could not be more pleased. The Center for Inquiry, on whose board I sit, has designated him this year’s recipient for his courageous public stands on behalf of atheism, rationality, and freethought.

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) June 9, 2020

For the unversed, Richard Dawkins Award is given in the name of world-renowned English evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and author Richard Dawkins.

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