Aisha Chaudhary

Aisha Chaudhary (27 March 1996 – 24 January 2015[2]) was an Indian author and motivational speaker. She is the author of the book My Little Epiphanies, published one day before her death.[3] The 2019 Hindi film The Sky Is Pink is based on her life.

Aisha Chaudhary
Chaudhary at TEDx Pune in 2013
Born(1996-03-27)27 March 1996
New Delhi, Delhi, India[1]
Died24 January 2015(2015-01-24) (aged 18)
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Cause of deathPulmonary fibrosis
NationalityIndian
Alma materAmerican Embassy School
Occupations
  • Author
  • motivational speaker
Known for
  • Motivation Speeches at INK Conference
  • My Little Epiphanies (2015)

Early life

Aisha was the daughter of Niren Chaudhary, the president of South Asia operations of Yum! Brands and Aditi, a mental healthcare worker. She had an elder brother named Ishan Chaudhary and an elder sister Tanya Chaudhary, who died at the age of seven months. Aisha was born with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). When she was six months old, she had to undergo a bone marrow transplant.[4] As a side effect of the medical therapy following chemotherapy, she developed a serious illness called pulmonary fibrosis – a type of condition that causes irreversible scarring of the lungs.[5]

Career
Former Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari releasing My Little Epiphanies in New Delhi on 13 April 2015. Salma Ansari and the former Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani are also seen

Chaudhary gave inspirational talks from age 15 to the time of her death. She was named an INK Fellow and spoke in the 2011 and 2013 INK Conferences.[6] Chaudhary was also a speaker at TEDxPune in 2013.

She wrote a book that was published one day before her death.[7][8]

Representation in other media

The Sky Is Pink, a film based on her life, directed by Shonali Bose and starring Priyanka Chopra as Aditi Chaudhary, Farhan Akhtar as Niren Chaudhary, Zaira Wasim as the main Aisha Chaudhary and Rohit Suresh Saraf as Ishan Chaudhary was released theatrically on 11 October 2019.[9][10][11]

The documentary Black Sunshine Baby is about her life.

Works
  • My Little Epiphanies[12][13] (2015) which included her thoughts about life and also wanted people to know about her journey that could help others going through such hardships in life.[14]

References
  1. "Real Se Reel Tak". Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. "Mother reflects on Aisha's inspiring life in Gurgaon | Gurgaon News – Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  3. "Pendrive: Remembering Aisha Chaudhary". The Indian Express. 25 January 2015. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. "Priyanka Chopra in The Sky Is Pink: Who is Aisha Chaudhary, the girl the film is based on?". India Today. Ist. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  5. "The Girl Who Just Won't Give Up – The New Indian Express". Archived from the original on 11 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. "Singing in the life boat". inktalks.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  7. "The Girl Who Just Won't Give Up". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 26 September 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  8. "Redirecting". tedxtalks.ted.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  9. "Priyanka Chopra in The Sky Is Pink: Who is Aisha Chaudhary, the girl the film is based on?". India Today. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  10. "Priyanka Chopra's The Sky Is Pink gets a release date". 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  11. "Priyanka Chopra shares the latest still from 'The Sky Is Pink' featuring Farhan Akhtar – Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  12. Jacob, Rahul (9 May 2015). "Two books about smiling through adversity". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  13. Bloomsbury.com. "My Little Epiphanies". Bloomsbury Publishing. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  14. Lawrence, Victor. ""Real Se Reel Tak" – The real face of characters in upcoming Bollywood Biopics". Digital World. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
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