Gold medalist Tanisha hid her disability at school for 12 years. Sports freed her

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Sikar: Tanisha Bajias village school in Sikar recently discovered her childhood secretit was her disability and she hid it for 12 years..

The secret was out when she won a silver medal in the 400-metre race at the 13th National Sub-Junior Para Athletics Championship in Bengaluru this July...

Growing up, Tanisha mostly stayed home because other children would tease her for her disability..

This way I hid my disability so that no one would laugh at me, said the 18-year-old in a conversation with ThePrint, sitting on the wooden cot at her home in Agloi village in Rajasthans Sikar50 kilometres from the district headquarters surrounded by Aravallis...

Indraj Bajia made a running track on johad (community land) as there is no place for Tanisha to train in Agloi village...