Artist Rayna Arya’s upcoming art exhibition, The Colourful Mirage at a Worli gallery from June 28 to July 13 is as much about colour as it is about courage. Arya, 24, suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in a hit-and-run accident while on a school trip to Khandala in 2012. She was 12 then.

The accident resulted in a coma, post which she had to be kept under medical observation round the clock. She overcame a plethora of challenges and undertook a rehabilitation journey that took her to the USA and Israel. Seven years later, she wrote a book titled Hope Exists. Arya’s “never give up” attitude reflects in her prose, poetry and paintings. Arya and her mother Sonica advocate for greater awareness about TBI in India.