Azmi said the 75-year-old writer had received an email from Dawkins himself, announcing the honour.

'You absolutely and unequivocally deserve it. So so proud,' wrote Farhan.

British actor-comedian Ricky Gervais received the honour last year.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 New Year's resolution was to read an important book every two weeks and discuss it on Facebook.

They are not exactly the breeziest books but Bill Gates eloquently explains his unusual choices.

The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, according to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is 42.

A being as fair as champa, he had large eyes, long ears (vishal netra/ lamba karna) and a mark on his left eyebrow (daave bhuvai-vari kondi...

Atheists who may not be spiritual still tend to view living in a moral domain as a more valid form of existence.

The device has also come in for some criticism mainly because other researchers say they have not been able to replicate the same effect in...

Consider the following uttered by a white Caucasian male, “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white a...

The moral is freedom of speech isn't all it's touted to be: sometimes, even God can't save those who fall foul of the earthly book of laws.

Faith allows Eros to function and frolic in the world constantly threatened by the gaping jaws of Thanatos or Death.

Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Eric saying that "The idea of God is a product of human weakness."

Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the US, owned hundreds of slaves.

At the recent Jaipur Literature Festival, Dawkins spoke with Vineet Gill about why he prefers science over faith, whether he is an 'atheist...

In the frighteningly funny anti-war novel Catch 22, Yossarian the terminally sane protagonist has an insane argument with his girlfriend ab...

In his latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins refers to an incident in the life of British biologist J B S Haldane when h...