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 ...

In Hawaiian culture, images of curling waves, hibiscus and geometric patterns are repeated on cloth, mats and even skin. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu culled from its roughly 25 million ...