MRS INDIA INTERNATIONAL QUEEN FINALIST Mrs. Ashu Verma Chaubey

Congratulations Mrs. Ashu Verma Chaubey from Thane, Mumbai, for being selected as a finalist of Mrs India International Queen 2025! Let’s know more about her. We interviewed Mrs. Ashu and here are her amazing answers:

Name: Ashu Verma Chaubey
Profession: A 24/7 hands-on Mom and homemaker and an author, poet and blogger by passion
Qualification: Electronics Engineer and English Honours Graduate
Location: Thane, Mumbai
Strengths: My strength lies in my belief in myself. Perseverance, Dedication and Determination to achieve what I aspire for define my character. Whenever I find myself stranded at a crossroad, I don’t wait for the right moment to arrive—I walk forward and create that moment myself. As an author, I believe in the power of my words to inspire change. My motivational poems and blogs are not just creative expressions—they are my greatest strength and a medium to guide society towards a better tomorrow.
Weakness: Striving towards perfection and excellence and stretching myself beyond the limits of my physical capabilities. Being an emotional individual and being readily receptive towards others’ expectations, make me a vulnerable person. My relations constitute the weaker side of me and define me as a person who transcends the limits of her comfort and contentment to make others happy. My naivety fails me while discerning the deceptiveness hidden behind sweet gestures and my simplicity allows people to underestimate me and take me for granted. Not able to say ‘NO’ also quite often takes a toll on my personal life.
Likes: Music, singing, dancing, cooking, writing and making people happy.

Dislikes: Idleness, gossip, negativity, narcissism, and pessimism. Lies—no matter who they come from—turn me off completely.

Tell us about your family:

I am a proud and only daughter of Mrs. Kalpana Rani Verma, who is my strength as well as my weakness. Her life and her decisions teach me to accept challenges and confront them boldly. Leaving her tears behind, she has always moved forward for her family. However heartbroken she herself might have been, but she never let those circumstances affect the two of us. Her spirit to live ‘Her life-Her way’ is worth incorporating in one’s life. My second role is that of a mother to 7.5-years-old triplet boys who are smart enough to baffle me every second. I’ve done my best job in assisting them to travel a journey from 27-week few, hundred-gram preemies to where they are today.

I’ve also been playing the bitter-sweet role of a wife to Mr. Sanjay Chaubey for the past 19 years and together we have seen and survived many vicissitudes and hurdles in our married life, especially the birth of the boys, COVID wave of 2021 and his suffering from GBS in October 2024.

Quotes that keep you going, motivate you:

• • With intense fidelity, I dare to look beyond the horizon, ‘coz I strongly believe, in my candid disposition.
  • Mindless endeavor takes one nowhere. Only when backed by wisdom, sanity and rationality, our efforts lead to success.
  • Fools wait for luck to open the doors of success, because the key to unlock lies in one’s sincere and determined industriousness
  • Relieve your stress to Relive your life.
  • None can destroy Iron, but its own rust can. Likewise, none can destroy a person but their own mindset can.
  • In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take 

Achievements/ Anything you are proud of yourself:

Watching my mom get a lifetime award from the hands of then Mayor of Delhi, as the most inspiring woman was a dream come true. Though approached for my nomination for my journey as an author, I requested permission from the concerned platform and submitted her biography instead, on the basis of which she was selected for the award. There’s no better material gift that I could have presented her with. Her biography written in poetic form by me has been included in their prestigious coffee table book.

My solo poetry book depicting various shades of a woman for which I was presented the Emily Dickinson award by the publishers is another achievement of mine that makes me proud.

I’ve also been presented with many awards from the online platforms where I write blogs, fiction stories and poems. Writing a series of technical blogs covering the journey of Chandrayaan in simple and comprehensible terms and language for housewives and nontechnical people to get an insight of India’s marvelous scientific feat for a well-known blogging platform was another achievement of mine. My poem on periods was selected by an international platform to be printed on postcards and distributed amongst the masses in order to educate them about the topic which is another achievement that I’m proud of. And all those smiles that happen, due to me and my pen swell my heart with pride and happiness.

What is Women Empowerment according to you?

Financial independence is definitely the biggest step towards women empowerment, but it’s not the only one. For had it been that rewarding then we wouldn’t have had highly successful women struggling in their personal lives inspite of all the materialistic joys they possess., women empowerment in its true essence according to me is a feel of all round sense of security enveloping a woman’s feelings.

Emotional empowerment and freewill to take decisions, to fight her circumstances her way and challenge the unjustified limits set for her by the society is required to free her of the that she faces on a day-to day basis.

It’s about creating an environment where a woman, without the restrictions of hierarchy, caste, religion, financial status or educational background is able to express herself, her views and her decisions without an iota of shame, guilt or self-doubt and is able to breathe free without having to factor in that how would the society judge her. The day we achieve this freedom will be the day when women will become truly empowered.

Also, the day when our mothers-in-law reject the theory that the daughter-in-law should suffer in silence just because she did, instead they come forward to support her will be the day when women empowerment will be achieved in its true sense.

Message for the society:

“Be the change that you wish to see in this world.”

As rightly said by Mahatma Gandhi, this is the only way we can bring about transformation in the world around us. Empathy, Sympathy and Sensitivity -these are the virtues that we are losing in today’s world. Let’s try building an atmosphere where human values are rated the highest by inculcating these virtues in ourselves first and believe me all other changes will automatically follow.

“If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate an entire family”

Let’s all follow Gandhiji’s vision about educating a girl child and change the future of our Nation. With all the other skills and talents already presented to her by the Almighty, this one feature added can do wonders in shaping our society.

How will you give back to society after becoming a Queen?

I’d like to join NGO’s working sincerely towards imparting education to the weaker section of the society and devote my time towards educating the underprivileged by sharing my knowledge, life-experiences and skills. Another important field I’d like to work in is creating self-help groups addressing mental health issues in women.

Depression today, like a spider web, is ensnaring women of all age groups without differentiating between them on the basis of age, caste, social status or qualifications. And because this subject is still considered a taboo, these women are either silenced or hold their thoughts back for the fear of judgement, making them hollow from inside while they keep on smiling on the outside. Hence working in this direction is the need of the hour.

I want people to accept the fact that the issues concerning general mental wellbeing, mood swings, anxiety, mental fatigue and depression are not some hoax calls by women to gather attention but they exist in reality. They need to be paid attention to and addressed and we as responsible individuals need to stand up for each other and extend our helping hands before it’s too late. I want people to understand the fact that sometimes even life and death is a matter of one phone call and a few warm, comforting and encouraging words.

Educating masses about the logical reasons behind dos and don’ts during periods so that our girls can live a guilt-free life devoid of all those impure feelings is also an important direction in which I’d like to focus my energy.

Why have you participated in Mrs India International Queen?

The first and foremost reason is my teenage dream. The fire that had ignited in many girls of my age as we witnessed Aishwarya and Sushmita being crowned international Queens. So definitely it’s a step towards self-satisfaction and contentment. It is one big desire that has been hibernating somewhere deep within me which now I wish to fulfil.

Secondly, I firmly believe that a platform such as Mrs India International Queen will definitely give flight to my wings and help me spread my messages pertaining to education for all, equality, health and mental wellbeing, overcoming gender bias and various superstitions and myths halting our progress far and wide.

The world lives by examples.

My life has been a story about struggles, a story about failures and triumphs, a story of rogue waves knocking me off my feet time and again. But I have always contested those challenges. And through this stage I want to set an example that with my set of circumstances, if I can, then anybody can, the only prerequisites being hope, hard work and perseverance.

Hence my desire to participate in the event.