Beena Kak
| Bina Kak (Bina Kak) | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 February 1954 Bharatpur, Rajasthan |
| Political party | INC |
| Spouse(s) | Bharat Kak (Divorced) from Rani, Rajasthan |
| Children | Son, Ankur Kak, restauranter. Daughter, Amrita Kak, singer |
| Residence | Angor, Tehsil Sumerpur - 306902 |
| Religion | Hindu |
Beena Kak (born 15 February 1954) is an Indian politician and Bollywood actress.
Kak was born into a Punjabi Khatri family as Beena Bhasin, one of the five children of Dr. M.R. Bhasin, a government doctor. She has two brothers and two sisters. Her brothers are Dr. B.B. Bhasin, a doctor based in the UK, and B.B. Bhasin, a retired IPS officer. Her sisters are Kusum Suri, a retired school teacher based in the United States, and Kamla Bhasin, a writer and feminist activist.
Kak graduated from Home Science College, Udaipur in 1978, and then took a Master's degree from University of Baroda, Gujarat. She then married Bharat Kak, a classmate at college who belonged to a family with political connections.
Kak's former husband, Bharat Kak, belongs to a Kashmiri Pundit family settled in Rajasthan. His family, which hails originally from Kashmir, has lived in Rani, Rajasthan (in Pali district) for more than two centuries and has long-standing connections to the Nehru family, which was another Kashmiri Pandit family settled in Rajasthan: the Nehrus had lived in Khetri, Rajasthan, before Motilal Nehru moved to Allahabad in the late 1800s in order to practice law at the Allahabad High Court. After marrying Bharat Kak, and with his help, Beena Kak entered politics in the early 1980s as a member of the Congress Party. She received further support from the fact that her sister, Kamla Bhasin, was a stentorian and extreme feminist, a position much favored by the Nehru family.
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