Ever since 17-year-old Fatima Rodrigues won a basketball bronze medal at the recently concluded Special Olympic World Summer Games 2015 in Los Angeles, she and the circular piece of metal have been inseparable. She sleeps with the medal, carries it to her school everyday, and keeps it in her pocket for the rest of the day.

Fatima with her beloved bronze medal, which she has been inseparable from. Pics/Atul Kamble