Rationalist Narendra Nayak wins human rights award

January 28, 2015 03:15 pm | Updated 04:41 pm IST - Mangaluru:

Mangaluru-based rationalist Narendra Nayak, who travels across the country and abroad exposing 'miracles' and bringing awareness of the need to develop a scientific temper, has won the Lawrence Pinto Human Rights Award.

The award is instituted by Friends of Lawry in memory of Lawrence Pinto, a trade union leader who led the Young Christian Workers Movement in Mangaluru, and one of the founding members of Konkani cultural organisation Mandd Sobhann.

Describing Mr. Nayak as a rationalist who debunked godmen and an activist for consumer protection who had founded a non governmental organisation called Aid Without Religion, the organisation said he had held 2,000 demonstrations in India, Australia, Greece and England showing how claims of miracles were false.

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