Moranngam Khaling’s four-acre plot features plants whose leaves are used to make the ink, and whose twigs help tap patterns into skin. There are many ways to save something. One can document it, place ...

When it comes to tattoos, modern India is way behind the ancient. For centuries, certain motifs have been recurring across the subcontinent, inked in organic colours, with healing pigments blended in.

Recently, a tattoo studio has come in Araku valley. Tribal youth from the valley and neighbouring tribal hamlets have been thronging the place to get their bodies engraved with different types of ...