‘As long as inhuman acts like rape, there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.’- Andrea Rita Dworkin (an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women).

Talented actress Rukhsar Rehman who was last seen in Sony Entertainment Television’s Kuch Toh Log Kahenge recently went through a personal loss when her father Lateefur Rehman Khan passed away on 20 February 2013. Talking about the tragedy, Rukhsar told us, “It was a sudden death. My dad who was an IAS officer, aged 73 was not ill. The whole thing happened in 15 minutes.”

<strong>Click on the pic to view slideshow</strong> How often does one come across a person from the glamour world who can genuinely talk and be concerned about the thinning fabric of our society, political disorder, flagging infrastructure or pretentious women’s rights organizations? I met one such actor who is into films as well as television and she is Rukhsar Rahman.