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.