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Javed Akhtar reveals how his grandmother ended his religious education: 'I wish our leaders had one-tenth of her sensibility'

Stating that secularism can't be taught through crash courses, Javed Akhtar said, Secularism should be a way of life because everyone around you is living like this, and then it comes to you automatically. Akhtar, who is an atheist, said he was raised in a household of agnostics and atheists.